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Subject:Re: Questions to ask Interviewer From:SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:43:12 EST
Anthony Markatos <tonymar -at- hotmail -dot- com> has the intriguing idea of asking to
see a company's specs in a job interview. I see where you're coming from,
Tony, and I think you would learn what you want to learn from it, but as a
hiring manager I think I would not grant such a request, because I'd feel
paranoid about letting someone who might not take the job see
company-confidential material.
(If I *did* let you see specs, depending on the product you might see
something pretty reasonable, or something pretty awful--but that's just us.)
-- Steve
Steven Jong, Documentation Team Manager ("Typo? What tpyo?")
Lightbridge, Inc., 67 S. Bedford St., Burlington, MA 01803 USA mailto:Jong -at- lightbridge -dot- com 781.359.4902[V], 781.359.4500[F]
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