"I went job hunting last year, and what I was really looking forward is technical interviews - PLEASE just challenge me, allow me to show you my work instead of my CV"
I totally agree. I hate the irony of having a highly technical job but then needing some decent writing skills to put together a CV that isn't just a list of employers, dates and acronyms.
Why shouldn’t you have decent writing skills? There are so many highly skilled developers who get frustrated because their ideas aren’t taken seriously because they don’t communicate well and don’t have any persuasive capabilities. My career was stuck in neutral for a decade before I started working on my interpersonal skills and learned how to navigate corporate politics.