The best thing that could have happened to you is to get interviewed in C (!!!) when then position is supposedly for C++, and eventually you learned from people that worked for that company, that they just wanted a WordPress webmaster LOL!
I'm not kidding, this is what happened to me 4 years ago.
Don't worry about your intermediate level.
For sure I can honestly say that I am more than honored to have a 'PhD' in C++'s "hello world" :D
It's a language that I would love to work on exclusively for the rest of my life, if I could get hired much like those stories we read about back in the early '90s.
They were hiring pretty much anyone who had an interest in computing, even if they were working on something completely unrelated to technology, and they were willing to train them.
I'm not kidding, this is what happened to me 4 years ago.
Don't worry about your intermediate level.
For sure I can honestly say that I am more than honored to have a 'PhD' in C++'s "hello world" :D
It's a language that I would love to work on exclusively for the rest of my life, if I could get hired much like those stories we read about back in the early '90s.
They were hiring pretty much anyone who had an interest in computing, even if they were working on something completely unrelated to technology, and they were willing to train them.
The fun times...