You develop in Linux and are looking for work, and are requested to provide CV as a .doc file - what would you do?

[Omer Zak]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 00:13 +0300, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote:
> Why? Can't your OpenOffice create doc files?

Actually, whenever I am due to send a .doc file, I send a .rtf, figuring
that it is a more reliable way to preserve the document styling.

> It you are to make a war about it, fine, but you might miss some of
> the better jobs because the subcontractor's HR are not technical
> people, and if your CV is a little more difficult to open in their own
> software or whatever, your loss. Next.
> If you do it because it doesn't look good (it might look different as
> DOC created by OO), then know they don't care. They feed the doc into
> their software and look for keywords, pretty or not.
> 
> 
> So... What is your motive? What is your war?

I am not fighting any wars.  It is a filtering criteria, and my question
is really whether it is a valid filtering criteria.

Are you positive that good work (i.e. no WTF stuff, project manager with
a clue, high caliber co-workers, good technical challenge, adequate
opportunity for professional development, you name it) can hide behind
HR which insists upon getting .doc CVs?

                                              --- Omer