Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA

Re:Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA by uoflcards22 on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:34PM (#18575185)

You realize GPA is a relative, not absolute, metric, right (i.e., a 2.6 is considered ok for engineering students at top universities)?

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Re:Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA by akhilcacharya on Saturday December 01, 2018 @12:50AM (#18575448)

> 2.6 is considered ok for engineering students at top universities

I don't know anywhere this is considered "ok". At my school my GPA was considered just "Ok" at 3.9+.

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Re:Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA by sk5t on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:49AM (#18575607)

Grade inflation, look it up. If 3.9 is "OK" your class's grades have compressed to the point of meaninglessness.

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Re:Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA by akhilcacharya on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:56AM (#18575629)

I think we had ~150 CS grads, and about 15 valedictorians with perfect 4.0's.

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Re:Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA by eeks on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:22AM (#18576879)

Either your promotion is made of geniuses or as @sk5t said your GPA is indeed meaningless.

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Re:Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA by kenhwang on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:38PM (#18575197)

I've never met a company that simultaneously cared about GPA, but also had the bar low enough where 2.6 would be passable, and recruited from a top university.

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