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

From: David V. Corbin <dvcorbin_at_optonline.net>
Date: Wed Jun 23 18:07:00 2004

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...

>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org
>>> [mailto:cctalk-bounces_at_classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 4:47 PM
>>> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>>> Subject: Re: Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods
>>> & headcount... ;
>>>
>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Dan Kolb wrote:
>>> > I would agree generally there. However, I'd also say it's
>>> important to
>>> > have some stuff memorised, so you don't end up referring
>>> to books for
>>> > trivial problems.
>>>
>>> OTOH, I sometimes tell them, "If you really feel a need to
>>> cram and memorize, then memorize the index of the book, so
>>> that you can find things faster." :-)
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