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What I find ironic is that in order to work for Apple today, you need a spotless academic record since gradeschool. I doubt very much that Apple would hire a Re
by daimyoyo 15y ago
What I find ironic is that in order to work for Apple today, you need a spotless academic record since gradeschool. I doubt very much that Apple would hire a Reed College dropout today.
- rdouble 15y agoThat is not true. Apple is not like Google or Goldman Sachs. They do not ask for your GPA or care where you went to school. edit: hate to be down-vote curious, but I would be interested to hear if someone has been rejected from Apple for having a poor GPA. I've interviewed with Apple and nobody asked about my degree or GPA. It was the most on-topic job interview I've ever had. No weird brainteasers or annoying FizzBuzz questions. Just questions directly relevant to the position I was interviewing for. I have a handful of friends who work there who never finished college or have degrees in something irrelevant, like philosophy. Guys like Mike Matas and Mike Lee did not have degrees. The head of iTunes did not go to college at all.
- orangecat 15y agoApple is not like Google or Goldman Sachs. They do not ask for your GPA or care where you went to school. By that definition, Google is not like Google.
- rdouble 15y agoHas Google stopped asking for GPAs?
- calloc 15y agoNot since I last interviewed.
- orangecat 15y agoThere's a space for it on the application, but neither the recruiter nor interviewers appeared to care about my formal education at all. I don't know how much of a factor it plays in the decision process, but the idea that Google only pays attention to candidates with CS degrees from top-tier universities is false.
- ori_b 15y agoThey asked for mine, but they didn't seem to care much about it. If they had, they wouldn't have hired me. My grades were not good at all.
- cHalgan 15y agoYou are right. Apple is more like Oracle and Microsoft: they look for a talent and they will happily ignore GPA or lack of degree. However, that does not mean it is easier to get job at Apple than Google. Not at all.
- cHalgan 15y agoNo that is not ironic. That is how things work: if you have vision and you want to do something new and innovative, big corporations such as Apple are not the place to work for. They need just very smart people (hopefully not willing to rock the boat) to execute the existing plan. I'm not saying that all of these companies don't have vision or innovation: the point is that positions requiring vision and initiative are already taken. And if you try something new, you might get in trouble (just imagine somebody at Research in Motion suggesting to build phone similar to iPhone in 2005).