"Linux is now not supported"

[Kevin Amery]

I guess we're all assuming here that the scenario is that Linux has
been pulled at the last minute. What if instead it's "everyone
involved in the product knew two weeks ago that Linux was out... but
we never bothered to tell the TW until now (and how come you didn't
figure it out telepathically, anyway?)"


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Until next time...

Kevin Amery

On 11/18/06, Joe Malin <jmalin at jmalin.com> wrote:
> 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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