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> To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills I strongly agree! Looks like many other commenters agree too. how do I find
by wonder_er 6y ago
> To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills
I strongly agree! Looks like many other commenters agree too.
how do I find companies that are hiring and agree with this statement?
I've had a hard time finding those companies. I've had a slew of interviews recently, and none of them asked about my extensive online writing. None of them seemed to have clicked through to my website.
Are any of you on teams that really celebrate good writing, and would weigh my blog [0] at least as much as a technical challenge?
[0] https://josh.works/blog https://josh.works/blog
- notyourwork 6y agoAmazon celebrates good writing.
- blizkreeg 6y agoStripe
- wonder_er 6y agoI interviewed with them, after very affirming conversations with a few different people in the organization. My writing/async communication skills didn't come up. _They did not ask_, which means my writing skills are illegible to the organization. I bombed the "live algorithmic coding challenge", which is a re-implementation of the Trier Social Stress Test, and indeed induced substantial anxiety on my behalf, _because I so wanted to work at Stripe_. [0] I was so dispirited I've not done another technical interview since. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_social_stress_test https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trier_social_stress_test
- ayewo 6y agoOff-topic: I like the look of your blog. Is your theme a heavily customized instance of Jekyll?
- wonder_er 6y agoThanks ayewo! It is indeed Jekyll. The Poole theme. I've written a little about how to set up something similar here: https://josh.works/build-a-personal-site-with-jekyll https://josh.works/build-a-personal-site-with-jekyll It's not super customized, but I've done a lot of work over the years to just make it work well for me. Jekyll is a super cool tool.