"Linux is now not supported"

[Joe Malin]

4 - Tell the interviewer, "gee, did you guys get bought by Oracle?" Of
course, Oracle would never de-support Linux, but I can easily imagine
them doing something like this.

(worked there for six years).

Joe

technical writing plus wrote:
> My response to the interview question would be the same three part answer
> that I gave before. 1 Find out for sure what the real word is, 2 find out
> whether the people who gave that real word really have the say-so, and then,
> assuming that they do, 3 proceed to figure out what actually has to be done
> to the docs at this late stage. 
>   Note: Actually finding out what the real word is (and not just the whys
> and wherefores, which after all can be irrelevant) can be a challenge.
> Finding out who gave the word might be hard too. 
>   The part 3, the actual 'what needs to be done now?', is of course right
> important. But it should be asked only after the first two things. 
>   None of this would be meant as trying to poke holes in the questions of
> the interviewer. In fact, it's a valid question. 'What do you do, when faced
> at the last minute, with a potential massive change to the docs?'
>
> Jim Jones
>
> -----Original Message-----
>   
>> That's too bad, because I wish I had a few bucks for every time
>> someone working for me made major changes to a document
>> because "they heard" something was going to change from
>> someone and didn't take the time to verify that what "they
>> heard" was a definite decision and not just one that someone
>>     
>
> The question was:
> - "It's Friday afternoon, your four 200-page document PDFs are on the
> FinalPDF server to be picked up by the build server, the build is
> Saturday morning, and you heard that Linux is now not supported. Tell
> me what you do in the first 15 minutes."
>
> You are assuming something. You also might have heard it from the VP
> of Software Development. Poking holes in the interview question is
> not the "test". This is an interview and the purpose of the question
> was to see if you knew a process. Answer the question.... 
>
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