According to the recruiter, that one last question about my GPA torpedoed my candidacy. If these guys were as smart as they think themselves to be - and a cert

According to the recruiter, that one last question about my GPA torpedoed my candidacy. If these guys were as smart as they think themselves to be - and a certain minimal GPA is in fact a requirement - they'd ask for that up front. So not sure what I could have done better [FAANG2] There's nothing you could have done - and that's the whole point of these hazing rituals. A significant portion of the time (like around 20 percent per round) we either fail, or are at least moderately "dinged" due to what are essentially just chemistry issues between yourself and the interviewer. Performance, or so-called native ability has very little to do with it. The companies doing this are more or less aware of this, on some level. And in fact use to pat themselves on their back, saying "Well we're so awesome that we can afford to burn through 3x as many candidates as we really need to to fill this position. And because the terrifyingly high false positive risk. Which just proves how awesome we are."