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> Grades inform potential employers where a student's strengths and weaknesses are. I graduated in 2016 and never once had an employer concerned about my grade
by ecf 3y ago
> Grades inform potential employers where a student's strengths and weaknesses are.
I graduated in 2016 and never once had an employer concerned about my grades. It would be a red flag if I had.
Half my time in college was spent working in the dining center cleaning dishes to help pay for my education. I didn’t have the luxury of studying as much as others did.
- tekla 3y agoFunny, most of my class considered it a red flag if a employer didn't check for grades. Mostly because it meant everyone who had < 3.0 GPA or so would mob them. All the best employers had 3.5 or bust.
- gloryjulio 3y ago> All the best employers had 3.5 or bust. Not sure about that. Don't know any faang companies that care about your grade.
- brewdad 3y agoThey don't care about the difference between a 3.5 and a 4.0 but they absolutely have a minimum grade standard for new college grads. Five years into your career, yeah, they just want to know whether you have a degree and your work experience. Grades certainly matter when first starting out however.
- mrguyorama 3y agoGoogle was happy to attempt to recruit me from a no-name school with a 3.2 GPA Pretty much anything above a 3.0 for a STEM degree is just a measure of how much you cared, or how much free time you had anyway.
- gloryjulio 3y ago> Five years into your career, yeah, they just want to know whether you have a degree and your work experience. Grades certainly matter when first starting out however. Not really, even half a year of internship in a average software shop/your own software project/working experience in any software position is enough to win over a great student with 0 experience to score you a chance of interview. And the interview experience is the same for everyone. The school experience frankly doesn't account for anything except whether the candidate has the fortitute. You learn on the job anyway. It's like how they use leetcode where they just want to see how hard you want the job. Source: I am in faang.
- tanjtanjtanj 3y agoI applied to ~15 employers in my last semester of school and 0 of them asked for or about grades (in the US).
- tekla 3y agoAny employer of new grads that didn't ask for grades were all pretty obviously lower tie. It was also much harder to get an interview because of sheer numbers of students standing on line. The high tier companies told everyone before they stood on line that unless you have a minimum of 3.0, you were better off going somewhere else.
- tanjtanjtanj 3y agoI went through multiple rounds of interviews with Google and received an offer from Amazon without ever providing a transcript (2013).
- hilux 3y agoI know someone who couldn't get an interview at Google, within the last couple of years, because his grades (at Caltech - the last holdout against grade inflation!) were too low. IIRC he was above average at Caltech, but GPA was abysmally low compared to applicants from Stanford, Harvard, Pomona, and other egregiously inflating schools.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoJust curious, why would you include Pomona ( if we're talking about the Claremont colleges generally) but exclude Harvey Mudd, which is definitely in the Caltech position of fiercelyresisting grade inflation, if not even more rigorous than Caltech (and probably anywhere else STEM-oriented) in that regard.
- hilux 3y agoThe schools I mentioned are well-known to be grade inflators, and at one point I checked out Pomona's website (which discusses their grading), so it was on my mind. From a distance, I think highly of Harvey Mudd, but I don't know their grading policies. I doubt they grade harder than Caltech, since HMC's branding is all about "we want to help you succeed" and Caltech is more of "we're going to beat you up [intellectually]."