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Subject:RE: Preparation for a phone screen interview From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Jan 2003 12:46:33 -0500
I don't condemn the guy (Matt). Infact, I give him credit. Matt's about 3
levels above my manager, who was in Russia at the time. He thought a
technical writer was important enough that it have a buyin from upper
management. In addition, he was acting on behalf of the CTO (local 800 pound
gorilla) and it was only someone of that level who could proxy the CTO.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
Barnes&Noble.com
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"When you only have two minutes to do
something that takes three, wait until you have three"
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike O. [mailto:obie1121 -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:28 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Preparation for a phone screen interview
IMHO employers often approach technical writer interviews a lot
more carelessly than other positions. In John's story, there is
an officer of the company who is preparing to commit six figures
annually to a tech writer position, and he apparently doesn't
even know the first thing the employee is supposed to do. I
can't imagine that ever happening in a programmer interview, or
even a sales or marketing interview. Usually the technical leads
insist on interviewing programmers themselves.
John wrote:
In fact, I'll give an example:
When I interviewed here, I met with the Dir of NY Operations. We
talked about how I get information and I mentioned that one of
the ways was to ask alot of WHY questions and to offer
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