In a job interview two weeks ago:
"chief technical officer": So, you know html and stuff?
me: yes. I write it all out in a text editor.
him: like Frontpage?
me: no. More like homesite, bbedit, or simpletext.
him: So, you know tables and stuff?
me: uh huh.
him: Do you know how to use stylesheets?
me: yep.
him: Wow! great! well, let's arrange another interview here, so you can talk to the CEO (this medical start up had like 6 people in it).
Total interview: 10 minutes.
Total driving time to and fr…
- Continued from above: "CEO": So, you know HTML? (no and stuff, thank god) me: Yep. CEO: So, you know Stylesheets? me: (a little confused, after this 2 hour drive) Yes. (?) CEO: Well, we're a medical [INSERT MARKETING JARGON AND THE MARKETING VERSION OF "techno-babble" HERE], and we develop office billing software for private practices. However, we would like to put together a database-driven health tip encyclopedia delivered through an (exact words here) Adobe Flash Macromedia interface. Me: W…