OK, as some of you may remember, I have been to 2 job interviews in my 
life so far. On Wednesday, I'm going to number 3.

Don't worry. I already know I won't get the job. This isn't just an 
interview; they're talking about having a panel of 4 department bosses 
grill me for 2 hours, and then they're giving me a test, and then 
there's some kind of team interaction exercise, and then there's 
something else after that, and at the end I'm supposed to give a 
presentation. /Clearly/ I don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of 
getting this job.

On the other hand, presumably it'll be good interview experience. When 
you think about it, most of my competitors will have been to hundreds of 
thousands of interviews. They are all interview experts. Compared to 
that, I don't stand a chance. So getting more interview experience has 
to be a good thing, right?

Looking over the job description again, it says "junior developer 
analyst". The "analyst" part worries me. But we'll see. Reading the 
description, they want a degree in CS or similar, and ideally 1+ years 
of commercial development experience. Conspicuous by its absence is any 
mention of /what technology/ they're using. Is this a C++ application? 
Java? VB? C#? COBOL? FORTRAN? APL??? It doesn't say. (Neither does the 
product website, but then, /that/ isn't unusual.)

OK, so I know vaguely what the product they sell actually does. I know 
where the building is. I need to figure out what to wear. Is there 
anything else I can actually do to "prepare" for this?

(I mean, aside from practising being given the third degree by the 
Spanish Inquisition. :-P )

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