Another story from the HN front page mentioned the value of a college degree in today's workplace. With all this pressure on tuition fee rises and the (wrongly)

Another story from the HN front page mentioned the value of a college degree in today's workplace. With all this pressure on tuition fee rises and the (wrongly) perceived lack of value in a university-level education it would make sense for a high GPA to mean even less than before. Regardless of what the silicon valley types believe Yahoo is still a fairly attractive company to work for, and with Mayer at the helm I can see it becoming a great place to work. For once I'd like to see a tech company openly come out and say "grades mean nothing" and to persuade those gifted few that cared more about real-world projects than writing a route planner for the London underground in Prolog. Don't get me wrong, grades do mean something, but when you're looking to work in the big leagues you'd hope that their recruitment process could discover the difference between a great programmer and a great academic.