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Do you think your view was common in any way? GPA is a deeply flawed metric but I don’t think most people have any awareness of this.

Spooky23 7y ago
There are plenty of jobs in banking that don’t require much beyond the ability to get a BA in whatever and a personality that tends to follow the rules. Even in tech jobs, the narrow scope of jobs for compliance reasons enables all sorts of wacky. I had a buddy who basically performed a single task related to zoning SAN volumes and made an obscene salary for doing so. GPA correlates to a personality that the function in the bureaucracy.
- bsanr2 7y ago
  I see these type of comments as an underemployed college grad and don't know how to feel.
  - leetcrew 7y ago
    step one is don't feel bad. it really is a numbers game. some of the companies you're applying to don't actually want to hire anyone for the position right now. some of them are desperate to get anyone with a pulse yesterday. it's all about timing, but you don't usually have a way of knowing when the time is right. just keep rolling the dice; you'll get a bite eventually. I got an internship that lead to my first full-time job when I had a 2.4 GPA. I just happened to have experience with relevant tech that was rare in the area and they gave me a shot.
    - bsanr2 7y ago
      Here's my issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three... https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-disparities-in-employment/ https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-dispar... So while what you say is true, my potential network is necessarily limited. Working in retail, I still met plenty of people who wouldn't even let me assist them because of my race. I think this may go beyond personal qualities.
  - Spooky23 7y ago
    As the other reply said, it’s a numbers game. Making friends and building relationships are key. You can stack the odds with a friendly face.
omarhaneef 7y ago
It felt like most other people had the same view. That is also why personal networks could be used to differentiate. I don't know what it looks like now though, or if there is more concern about just reproducing what people already look like by tapping into personal networks.

Spooky23 7y ago

There are plenty of jobs in banking that don’t require much beyond the ability to get a BA in whatever and a personality that tends to follow the rules. Even in tech jobs, the narrow scope of jobs for compliance reasons enables all sorts of wacky. I had a buddy who basically performed a single task related to zoning SAN volumes and made an obscene salary for doing so. GPA correlates to a personality that the function in the bureaucracy.

bsanr2 7y ago
I see these type of comments as an underemployed college grad and don't know how to feel.
- leetcrew 7y ago
  step one is don't feel bad. it really is a numbers game. some of the companies you're applying to don't actually want to hire anyone for the position right now. some of them are desperate to get anyone with a pulse yesterday. it's all about timing, but you don't usually have a way of knowing when the time is right. just keep rolling the dice; you'll get a bite eventually. I got an internship that lead to my first full-time job when I had a 2.4 GPA. I just happened to have experience with relevant tech that was rare in the area and they gave me a shot.
  - bsanr2 7y ago
    Here's my issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three... https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-disparities-in-employment/ https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-dispar... So while what you say is true, my potential network is necessarily limited. Working in retail, I still met plenty of people who wouldn't even let me assist them because of my race. I think this may go beyond personal qualities.
- Spooky23 7y ago
  As the other reply said, it’s a numbers game. Making friends and building relationships are key. You can stack the odds with a friendly face.

omarhaneef 7y ago

It felt like most other people had the same view. That is also why personal networks could be used to differentiate. I don't know what it looks like now though, or if there is more concern about just reproducing what people already look like by tapping into personal networks.