Someone came to the office for an interview yesterday. We were going over things on his resume. Just stuff he had listed on there. It went pretty well. Then I asked him to rate himself in a bunch of areas, on a scale of one to ten. Core Java. Core J2EE. Design skills. Project management.

Then I asked him to rate himself in some web technologies, like JSPs and Servlets.

"Oh, I'm really inept at JSPs; they are my professional specialty."

M'Kay.

So I moved onto the "Yahoo Question."

You know: "the box on the left is your computer, the box on the right is Yahoo.com. You type yahoo.com into your browser and hit 'enter.' Explain to me what happens."

It only went downhill from there.