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I see what he’s saying, but come on 2.6?!?
by jpeg_hero 8y ago
I see what he’s saying, but come on 2.6?!?
- uoflcards22 8y agoYou realize GPA is a relative, not absolute, metric, right (i.e., a 2.6 is considered ok for engineering students at top universities)?
- kenhwang 8y agoI'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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- akhilcacharya 8y ago> 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+.
- sk5t 8y agoGrade inflation, look it up. If 3.9 is "OK" your class's grades have compressed to the point of meaninglessness.
- akhilcacharya 8y agoI think we had ~150 CS grads, and about 15 valedictorians with perfect 4.0's.
- eeks 8y agoEither your promotion is made of geniuses or as @sk5t said your GPA is indeed meaningless.
- baoha 8y agoHe said they had his transcript from the beginning, this is definitely a bad move from Google, or the hiring process is not communicated clearly across teams.
- mkoryak 8y agoor maybe 2.6 was 'probably ok' but his justification for it made it 'not ok'
- erwan 8y agoA GPA of 2.6 at Waterloo is considered strong
- tachang 8y agoIt's possible at some schools to have 89s through most of your classes which equals a B (3.0) and have a few Cs and thus have a 2.6 GPA.
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- DuskStar 8y agoIIRC the average Engineering GPA at the University of Michigan was around 2.9 when I was there a few years ago. 2.6 would not have been horrible, but still pretty disappointing. Lots of classes were curved to a B or B-. With a setup like that, it's not possible for everyone to have 3.5+ GPAs...