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As someone who has done a lot of hiring, I've observed a strong correlation between spelling/grammar and the best programmers I've worked with. Details matter,
by Androider 8y ago
As someone who has done a lot of hiring, I've observed a strong correlation between spelling/grammar and the best programmers I've worked with. Details matter, and by failing to even read over your own submission you're showing you don't care about such details. Your commit messages and code isn't likely to impress anyone either.
Being able to write really well can also make you stand out and do wonders for your career, especially if everyone else on the team is likewise a high performer (Jeff Dean style). The best people I've worked with have also all been really nice and kind to a fault.
- alxlaz 8y agoI absolutely agree. Every single good programmer I know is also exceptionally adept at written communication (and, indeed, really nice). They tend to be good at oral communication, too, but it's a little hard to get an accurate reading of that in an interview. The part I quoted is representative of the recruiting industry because it has a spelling mistake. It's "fared", not "faired", and unless "fared less" is some strange idiom that I'm not familiar with (I'm not a native English speaker, and I'm more familiar with British English than with American English), I could swear it's fared worse (or less well, if you must). This is... very representative of the recruiting industry, in my experience.