I have been contacted about a job as a bilingual software tester at Microsoft, for X-Box games. The contractor recruiter (who is not knowledgable about Japanese) says that the interview will be in Japanese, and that if I get the job, I will be one of a very few non-native Japanese speakers who have, and that I will be communicating in Japanese at all times (including in bug reporting). It's a massive opportunity to improve my Japanese ability and a stepping stone into both MS and the world of game development in Japan, not to mention a chance to play games so new that the Japanese game mags don't even know about them.
The only problem is, at this point in history, the idea of doing an interview in Japanese scares the hell out of me. If the interviewer is expecting native level conversation skills, he may be fairly close. However, if he expects native level reading ability, I definitely can't help him there. The recruiter said that I would probably be shown a Japanese game manual to read, and I am pretty sure that I will not be able to read it 100% no matter what section he selects, probably around 80%. Apart from that, I have never been told exactly what needs to be said at a job interview in Japanese, the language has specialized words for every damn situation out there, doubtless there are words specifically for interviews as well, not to mention the fact that I haven't conversed with anyone in Japanese in months. But more than anything else, I just don't know what skill level is expected of me. It will be either tomorrow or otherwise in the near future. Does anyone have any advice, encouragement or doomsaying?