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Sure, there are certainly some land mines, but then there's also pure sloppiness.

A double digit percentage of the resumes I see have spelling and grammatical errors in them. How hard is it to spend a few minutes checking over a document that is pretty key to your career?

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Good engineers can be bad at English. I've seen C-suite briefings and strategy docs with obvious errors in them.

Unless you're working in publishing, I'd pay less attention to trivial errors than to evidence of an ability to get useful things done.

This is proof that you can counter-argument anything. Just proofread your damn resume (or engineer yourself a spellchecker).

Bad at English and attention to detail are two different things. Thoroughness, attention to detail, and knowing how to rigorously shake something down for at-a-glance defects are all skills -- disciplines -- I would expect out of a good software developer.

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