For federal engineering / IT / Software jobs, they often specify that you have to have a 3.0 or higher in the credits relevant to your field. They probably hire

For federal engineering / IT / Software jobs, they often specify that you have to have a 3.0 or higher in the credits relevant to your field. They probably hire people with low GPAs that meet their other requirements, but that's what they advertise. Also, it used to be repeated quite often that most of the bigger tech companies (IBM, Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, etc) were extremely difficult to get into if you didn't have a 3.7+ from a well known school. I don't know how true this was, but when I first started school, I was worried that if I didn't perform well enough, that it could potentially affect my chances of finding interesting work. I personally don't give a shit about someone's GPA. When I was going through my technical training in the military, we had people who barely passed the written exams, who would then proceed to complete the practical exercises faster and more accurately than anyone else. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses.