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      Technical Writer Interview

      Jul 27, 2019
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Santa Clara, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Byton (Santa Clara, CA) in May 2019

      Interview

      Most of the people I met with seemed nice enough, and they seem to pay pretty well. Still, my experience was plagued with enough issues that I'd think twice about working here. When they first called, I thought they were replying to an application I'd sent for a Technical Writer role. Turns out, the position hadn't existed for months -- they just never bothered taking it down from the website. Instead, they were trying to fill a different role that they labeled with the same title, yet was a temp job, with duties that sounded a little strange. Still, the phone conversation went pleasantly enough that it seemed worth exploring, so I accepted their offer of an in-person interview. I ended up meeting with six people in 20-to-30-minute blocks (which felt both exhausting and superficial). None seemed to have bothered reading my resume or have any structured agenda; everyone was just winging it. Some were more pleasant and helpful than others, though by the end, I was able to form a fairly complete mental picture of the job, which seemed to have very little to do with technical writing. It sounded more like a tedious, one-note temp job that revolved around Jira tickets -- filing them, updating them, moving them around -- with some project management thrown in. I'd lost interest long before the end. Two of the interviewers made a point to warn me that things are "really chaotic" around the office, which sounded about right. I'd suggest they work on that, and also work on being more responsible and truthful.

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