non-customer-facing

If you're talking about non-customer-facing jobs, or even basic retail jobs where the expectations aren't high, then absolutely.

And they have a huge surface area of non-customer-facing and/or abandoned servers which are off limits.

Clearly, making this sort of judgment about a non-customer-facing role is inappropriate, but is it wrong to acknowledge that looks play a part in customer contact[1] roles?

> There just isn't much political will to invest in large non-customer-facing projects How about OpenCompute?

There just isn't much political will to invest in large non-customer-facing projects (like Google's GFS and its successor, BigTable, Spanner etc.) and perhaps talent is spread a bit too thin.

The most likely source of pushback (that companies will care about) is likely to be from customers interacting with people wearing cameras, so it might be limited to non-customer-facing roles.

(To be honest I've ruled myself out of positions in the past where where non-customer-facing sysadmins/developers were expected to dress up in suits ever day.

But as far as non-customer-facing engineers go, I've found that if you're constantly flooded with email you're probably in an organization with lots of bureaucracy where few people feel empowered to make decisions.

Thus, because I believe these roles aren't customer facing, I suspect that these roles are either feeding someones' ego by sitting in meetings all day, or otherwise non-customer-facing roles that handle aggregating information.

Enterprise companies think, "Using agents could save me money, but if they do the job wrong, the damage outweighs the benefits." However, there's openness to using agents for non-customer-facing parts and non-critical tasks within the company.

Even above the comfortable clothing aspect of it, inflexibility in a comparatively minor thing like "dress code in non-customer-facing positions" indicates potential inflexibility in far more important things (sick/maternity/bereavement time, butt-in-chair time, informal 1-on-1s with higher-ups, merit-based raises, etc) and would greatly negatively influence the likelihood of taking a job for me.