I grew up in a factory town in the middle of nowhere. It was unwritten policy on the engineering team to never hire students with GPAs over 3.0 and to avoid any

I grew up in a factory town in the middle of nowhere. It was unwritten policy on the engineering team to never hire students with GPAs over 3.0 and to avoid anyone with a history of big jobs at major companies. That policy existed because, based on past experience, the company knew that it would lose those people quickly. That was in the days when people often stayed with a company for life.