Either way I took the option that was "in effect" advised to me by someone who has been recruiting a long time.
Flystudent - I suggest next time you're lucky enough to speak to someone in charge of recruiting, you ask the right questions. Do you really think that faced with 2 candidates of equal experience the only factor will be which was integrated and which was modular? If indeed, it's a factor at all.
I can think of 8 other factors off the top of my head. Information which I have gleaned after a year of sorting the wheat from the chaff on Pprune and other sites, reading the worthwhile literature and talking to people involved in the industry. If you don't know, I'm not going to tell you.
I can tell that there are other posters on this forum who've come to similar conclusions and I can gurantee they will get jobs before the others who simply haven't done their research.
Personally, I'm looking forward to my own moment of Schadenfreude.