They wanted to know about my project management experience.
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Some general, CV-based questions about myself to break the ice. Then more pragmatic, use-case-based questions like: - how to deal with their current doc in terms of maintenance, improvement, etc. - I suggested migrating it to make it more efficient, so we discussed possible alternatives like wiki and DITA XML - the core of their doc is API doc so we talked about API doc standards, best practices, doc generators like JavaDoc and Swagger. - Questions on markup like wiki syntax, markdown, rst - Hands-on examples of how I handled issues/problems/mistakes in the past and how I achieved positive results in my past experience as a tech writer
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They asked what experience I had
Standard FTE-style questions (rather than skills- & experience-based queries). For example, Tell me about a time when a project went wrong.
To tell what I did, why I did it and what was the result of my efforts
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