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alayne on July 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar

"Still, we give our grammar test to everybody, including our salespeople, our operations staff, and our programmers."

snowwrestler on July 20, 2012 [–]

Grammar is probably more important for sales than it is for developers. I get a few sales pitches and tend to dump the ones with poor grammar. I feel like: if they can't bother to send a clean pitch, how well are they going to manage my account?

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