I moved from New York where I had a good job with bad bosses to Los Angeles, California, one of the epicenters of the economic crisis.

I've been on my new job for 3 weeks now, and I am settling in enough to reflect a bit on the job hunt.

It sure was strange!

Perl experts kept telling me a couple of things over and over:

Interviewer: How do you switch a hash's keys and values?
Me: reverse %hash…
Interviewer: WRONG! You fail!
Me: Um…
Interviewer How would you print sorted the values of a hash?
Me: print sort values %hash…
Interviewer: WRONG! You fail!
Me: Wait a second, that's correct…
Interviewer: No it's not. Next question. Have you ever written your own assembly implementation of partial sort?

The above happened to me twice. Not in so many words, but you get the idea: combine a flagrantly outdated understanding of Perl with the desire to show off hardcore l33tn355, and keep the belly laughs coming!