Work experience yes, school wise no. Unless you are in one of the top 3 CS schools in the country and graduated top of you class, from experience, school grades

Work experience yes, school wise no. Unless you are in one of the top 3 CS schools in the country and graduated top of you class, from experience, school grades have no correlation with ability. Now, I know work experience is tricky as well (I once interviewed a DBA with 5 years experience that had trouble explaining me how to do some joins in SQL) but is more valuable than university experience.