I worked just a couple of blocks from the SF end of CalTrain. For about six weeks. It was a little company that, in retrospect, seemed to specialize in exploiting people just coming out of the videogame industry.

They were dazzled by my resume of the time, but it was not a good fit in the long run.

Heh, there's a decent chance I bought lunch more than once from the store in your friend's building...