FYI: In 2007 was hired as a new-grad software engineer at Google with a college GPA of 2.66

So Google didn't have any minimum GPA requirement. I certainly was asked about the low GPA during my interviews, but it clearly didn't stop them from hiring me.

Out of curiosity, how did you explain the low GPA?

> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience:

Google made the headlines of a fairly popular article (I think it was featured recently) with dropping that after empirically convincing themselves it was useless.

Also, take the advice of someone who's seen that crap work: never work for any company where HR can have the decisive call in hiring someone or not -- or any serious call in the hiring process of anyone who won't work in HR, for that matter.

Their data is restricted to a set of people that all got a minimum GPA of 3.5. There could still be a correlation if the range of GPAs were greater.

Doesn't that mean "zero correlation between job success and GPA above Google's minimum requirement" ?

> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience:

Guess I have a reason not to work for Google after all.

> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience:

Google asked me for my grades when I was fresh out of school; after that, they never have.

>>after that, they never have.

How many times did you quit and rejoin Google?

They asked for mine, rather early in the interview process I might add, in 2008 or so. I politely declined.

If I might ask, how did you go about declining, and what was their response?

Hard to say, I ended up finding funding for a project while I was in the process with them. We never really finished.

Would they expect your grades to change?

A good point; I never joined Google the first time around. I simply assumed that that data would have been discarded. It is quite possible, they have all that data in their system every time they call me for interviews or whatever.