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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by tqi on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:30PM (#33708375)
Agree that hiring is sure important, but I think as long as hiring is competitive, and most candidates are bad at writing, then compromises are almost inevitable?
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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by layer8 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:12PM (#33708860)
If FAANGs started putting more weight on technical-writing skills in their hiring, we would get Leetwriting and technical-writing bootcamps. Meaning, it’s just an education issue to some extent, and there’s currently too little motivation to train writing as a skill.
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Re:The Perks of a High-Documentation, Low-Meeting Work Culture by whatshisface on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:30PM (#33710147)
Leetcode doesn't raise people's IQs, it gives them practice effect on tech's favorite IQ test. So I don't think leetwriting would work for anything except getting practice effect on the new verbal IQ tests.
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