RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

Subject: RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Malcolm Mclean <mclean -at- syndesis -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:34:50 -0800 (PST)

> 3. Senior writer leaves. Manager now "interrogates" the
> candidate about the writing samples - determines how much
> the candidate knows about what they said they wrote - can
> the candidate explain concepts/principles related to the
> domain etc.

Some of my samples go back 15 years. When I first got into the
business, it was for a telcom company. It is unreasonable for you
expect me to remember something technical that I wrote about 15 years
ago and never wrote about again, or 13 years ago when I documented
some home-grown UNIX tools. You should know that much of what we
write about is through listening for a while, getting a tenuous grasp
on the subject, then running back to our PC to write about it before
the fact leaves our brain. I'm lucky if I can remember 10 minutes,
let alone 10 years...but while I remembered it, it was brilliant.

You can honstly say that if I pick up one of your samples from over
10 years ago, you can explain the technology behind a command line
you wrote about once? Well, you're a beter man than I am.

John Posada
Senior Technical Writer

"I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
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