I imagine that my response will be heavily criticized, but as someone who hires people regularly, I throw away any application with bad grammar. In my experienc

I imagine that my response will be heavily criticized, but as someone who hires people regularly, I throw away any application with bad grammar. In my experience, the most versatile and successful candidates can not only program, but can also write properly. The above sentence, "Yeah I'd expect this is pretty standard, what bugs me is when..." is a comma splice. You should replace the comma with a semicolon or a period. "Yeah I'd expect this is pretty standard," and "what bugs me is when..." are independent clauses and thus should not be be split with a comma. Maybe you're more careful with your applications, but it's easy for these types of things to slip in if such errors are habitual. It may be hurting your chances, as I'm probably not the only grammar Nazi out there.