Re: Test assignment for a tech.writer candidate?

[Lois Patterson <loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com>]

With junior candidates or interns, they will probably not have such an
extensive list of people you can talk to, nor a fully-developed portfolio.

Without getting into specifics for either junior or more senior candidates,
I can say that I feel the tests were indeed helpful. Almost all software
companies will have software developer candidates do tests of some sort,
and I can't see why it should be different when the candidate is going to
be writing programming documentation.


Lois

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> I once interviewed a candidate who had worked for one of my former
> employers.  Guess who had actually written the document he presented to me
> as an example of his work...
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> On 12/8/2014 10:30 AM, Connie Giordano wrote:
>
>> These
>> days it's just as likely to have someone fake their portfolio items or
>> blatantly steal them from a website somewhere as to show you original work
>> they were responsible for.
>>
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