And recruiters at companies that didn't list a minimum (e.g. Cisco, HP, MS, Amazon, Google) told me not to bother applying with my GPA. Company I did get hired

And recruiters at companies that didn't list a minimum (e.g. Cisco, HP, MS, Amazon, Google) told me not to bother applying with my GPA. Company I did get hired at, which is definitely a software company, told me later I only got hired because nobody thought to ask me my GPA.