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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by brewdad on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:40PM (#39375015)
They 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.

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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by mrguyorama on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @04:05PM (#39375349)
Google 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.

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Re:Grade Inflation at UC Riverside, and Institutional Pressu... by gloryjulio on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @04:30PM (#39375732)
> 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.

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