Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods & headcount... ;

Remembering back about 7 years ago [15+ years experience then]. The company had the most annoying placement test I had ever seen. If was "open-book" and given in their reference library. Unfortunately the IBM PC-Reference had the back half missing from the binder. They gave 1 hour for the test. Most of the questions I answered off the top of my head, others I just wrote down the page it would have been on in an intact reference manual. Finished the test in about 10 minutes. They thought I had just guessed at everything, until they checked my answers [including page referenceas against an intct PC Reference], and realized I had aced the test. A month later I was their lead software engineer, and was starting a complete re-architecture of their entire product line. Worked out for me...