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I think more interesting than this actual article is Fog Creek's "QA and Test Specialist" job listing linked at the end: http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/QA.html ht

by rudd 17y ago

I think more interesting than this actual article is Fog Creek's "QA and Test Specialist" job listing linked at the end: http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/QA.html http://www.fogcreek.com/Jobs/QA.html There are a bunch of small errors on the page that are the kind of things they'd expect a tester to catch and require fixing for. For example, "you've" is written with a backtick ("you`ve"), "valuable" is spelled with the letter L as a numeral one, "morale" is spelled "moral," etc. I wonder if in the phone interview they're going to bring these up. If they didn't notice the errors, they're probably not the right hire!

felideon 17y ago
It probably depends on the type of company, but if there is a compliance/legal department, they're the ones looking for typos and stuff and even the marketing department. Specially when it's content (as opposed to a WinForms dialog box, for example) I don't think proofreading is part a tester's job, but correct me if I'm wrong. Of course, the ones you mention are pretty blatant, so I would assume that it would benefit him to mention them since it shows great attention to detail and quality.