When I was in my last semester of college and looking for jobs, I just needed to find something but it was so hard to get someone to an interview phase. I alway

When I was in my last semester of college and looking for jobs, I just needed to find something but it was so hard to get someone to an interview phase. I always had good luck once I at least got an interview but it was an odd job market at the time. I was desperate to find _something_ so that I could start paying my loans and then looking for something better if need be afterwards. I ended up interviewing with a company that did contract work for software in government agencies, like DMVs. It sounded so depressing. Their technical screening was checking if a number is prime. I was familiar with checking all number up to the square root of the target number to see if they divided evenly from when I was a kid. Always knew it from some math or computer book. After implementing that, I began to be investigated if I had done interview prep where I found this. I honestly told them that I hadn't but this back and forth went on for a few minutes of disbelief over something that shouldn't have been a big deal in the first place (considering how esoteric the problem they gave me was anyway). Fast forward to the end of the interview, they ask me what my GPA was. I told them it was 2.98. They said that they couldn't accept anything below a 3. My GPA was going to get a massive bump at the end of the semester but they didn't care. A company that will flat refuse a candidate over two hundredths of a number (low because I didn't care of philosophy or other non CS classes) means they will be just as irrational during your employment. I ended up finding a much better job with a much better culture the next week which lead me down what's been an excellent career so far. I'm terrified what would have happened if I ended up working there.