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Interesting that a candidate for a post as technical writer needs to be grilled so hard on the technical stuff. IMO a good technical writer needs to be much bet
by mixmax 17y ago
Interesting that a candidate for a post as technical writer needs to be grilled so hard on the technical stuff. IMO a good technical writer needs to be much better at psychology, explaining and people-skills than the technical side of it.
Maybe this is why most technical documentation sucks, particyularly helppages oriented towards end-users.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoI also wondered why someone who had such a knowledge of algorithms would be interviewing for a tech writer position. Just doesn't seem right...
- maw 17y agoRead the documentation of Java's Collection framework sometime; it's gloriously well done. Somebody had to write it. Both Yahoo and Google offer services interesting to programmers; presumably they want documentation of a similar quality.