[nostrademons]

I boned up on C++ before my Google interview because I didn't know it and heard it would be included. It turned out that my interviewers exclusively asked me questions in Java and JavaScript, both of which I had fairly extensive experience in.

Then I ended up working in C++ and Flash once I was hired. Neither of which I had any prior experience with (well, I had a little Flash, mostly as a compiler target). Go figure.