RE: How would you resond to this interviewer?

["Lauren" <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

Was she referring to the format as in the design of the document or did she
mean the format of the content, like how the document is sectioned?  I would
have asked her to elaborate about what she was looking for.

It could also be that she is required to produce documentation deliverables
and she just needs something attractive to present to upper management.
I've been in that situation before.

Lauren 

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> I was in an interview the other day and began to show the 
> interviewer my portfolio. I explained that I had to sanitize 
> some of the documents due to confidentiality agreements and 
> couldn't show some of the "meat" of these programs that were 
> in alpha and beta stages. Her response was that it didn't 
> matter since she wasn't interested in the content, she was 
> only interested in the formatting. To that, I responded that 
> a few of the documents had to conform to corporate standards 
> that we had to follow.
>    
>   I haven't had to interview is so long and I think I 
> suppressed my internal groan. This position really is about 
> developing content where none exists--not just editing and 
> formatting existing documentation. 
>    
>   How would you have responded in this case? This is an 
> extremely small company (less than 10 people) and she is 
> leading the project so she knows what it the position really entails.
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