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dan_roberts -at- adp -dot- com wrote:
> I'm a bit of a "under the hood" kinda guy - sloppy or
> inefficient HTML, manual formatting in Word, that sort
> of thing - drives me nuts. Therefore, when I interview
> candidates, I'd like to see the code underneath the
> writing samples they provide.
Keep in mind, though, that the person may have inherited the document from someone else and gave re-writing lousy content priority over fixing what's 'under the hood'. If you have time to do both, great. But I'd find out if candidates created their samples from scratch before judging too harshly.
Cindy Kight
Technical Communications Mgr.
TSW Solutions, Inc.
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