First interview in three years...

Friend of a friend, of this guy I know, has this other friend who knows someone that might be looking to hire ... well, anyone.

What are they looking for? skill set?

Can you spell XML? Can you point out the internet for me? Can you build me an on-line shopping cart, using our legacy warehousing system running on cobol, and use ruby on rails for the front end, and really really great animated graphics, in your spare time, by tomorrow, as an intern, for free? We just know it will be a high volume site, so there can't be any down time, ever. It's like ebay, for your cat, with a classy, think facebook, sidebar advertising that instantly presents all the up-sell checkout items, where we will rake in advert dollars, to make up for the at-cost pricing in the shopping cart!

Oh, hey, ... sounds like an opportunity
I apply, I get an interview.

question one. If there were ten of you, clone yourself, on a complex project, how would it go? uh, it would go well, on time, on budget, tested.

voice of Shaggy-Like weird question, man

and this was the most technical of the questions.

perhaps, as a geek, AKB48 otaku is about right for the times...

being a programmer is just too weird anymore.