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> And yet, few people take the time to hone the skill. Probably because it is, as you said, quite literally undervalued. Coding is just a writing job, so if y
by Alex3917 6y ago
> And yet, few people take the time to hone the skill.
Probably because it is, as you said, quite literally undervalued.
Coding is just a writing job, so if you don't think that someone would get hired as a staff writer for The New Yorker then I don't see why you'd hire them to write in your codebase. But most companies don't think like that, much less put any actual weight on writing skills during the hiring process.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoOccasionally it is appropriately valued. A good tech writer, one who reaches out to engineers and figures out the hard stuff and plans an information architecture and documents your hardware product or your service's external APIs and tells people exactly how they work in a clear and systematic manner, can do fairly well at a company that needs this. (But they're hard to find, and many shops are just YOLO about that sort of thing.)