I've been in more than a few hiring discussions. Grit when discussing a candidate usually just means they did a cool side project completely on their own and ma

I've been in more than a few hiring discussions. Grit when discussing a candidate usually just means they did a cool side project completely on their own and maybe even made some money out of it. Or they really took ownership of their phd research project. In finance it can be code for "we want to hire this person despite the fact they went to a non ivy league school." However most of the "gritty" people i've interviewed would probably not consider themselves gritty... so putting that in a job description is pretty silly.