I was contacted by campus recruiters for an on-campus interview after a career fair.

The interview began with behavioral questions, which were fairly standard.

He then asked me to explain HTML: what the acronym stands for and what it means.

I have no web experience, and I don't claim to. I'm in computer engineering and am more interested in low-level programming and firmware, as indicated on my resume and the form I returned to schedule the interview.

I admitted to my ignorance and was instead asked to redesign a parking structure near my university on a game day that had a traffic problem.

I was given a couple of minutes and a piece of paper.

I basically did a nodal analysis on a circuit, with the streets akin to wires, and wrote a differential for cars entering the lot.

He said I shouldn't have assumed the traffic problem was outside the lot.