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Re: ratio of tech writers to developers at your company?
Subject:Re: ratio of tech writers to developers at your company? From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Tom Johnson <thj -at- tampabay -dot- rr -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:23:08 -0800 (PST)
> We are gathering statistics about the ratio of technical
> writers to software developers. Could you please share any
> information you have on the number of tech writers your
> company has versus the number of developers?
1 tech writer to 20 developers.
I think you are going to find that the ratio means nothing.
> We'd also appreciate it if you could let us know your primary
> industry, such as financial, medical, etc.
Insurance/HR/Consulting. How do you expect that that will have any
bearing?
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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