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A comment on Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply based on bad writing?.

Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by gorbachev on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:18AM (#2245455)
Are good writing skills a requirement of this position?

I'm sure pretty much everyone here has worked with people, who don't know how to write English worth a damn. For example in my last job I worked with this Scandinavian dude, whose written English was atrocious. It was so bad we made jokes about it (with him, not at him). I had to repeatedly correct his writing.

But the dude was a brilliant technologist. Innovative, incredible work ethic and he just got s* done at an unbeliavable pace. The projects we were working on were much better off with him than without him.

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Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by petervandijck on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:50AM (#2245563)
Good communication is a requirement, yes.
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Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by gorbachev on Monday February 21, 2011 @11:53AM (#2246060)
That's different from good writing skills.
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Re:Ask HN: is it unfair to refuse a job application simply b... by petervandijck on Monday February 21, 2011 @12:45PM (#2246332)
Not different as in exclusive. Writing ∈ communication in this case. It's strongly indicative. (ps: we're not talking about 1 typo here, I should probably have clarified that.)
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