But a 4.0 GPA will get you a job basically anywhere, because managers assume you’re a quick study. Sub-3.0 means they think you’re lazy or hard headed. When you’re skating near 2.0, you can have a degree in Rocket Science and recruiters will just assume you sucked at it.
Worked at a tech company that was hiring anyone with a 3.5+ from Data Scientists to English Lit majors. Then they just throw everyone into New Hire Training and gave them a coding crash course. The English Lit kids didn’t do any worse than the STEM crowd on the tech side. And they were way better at collaboration, documentation, and delivery.
You’d really like to think so.
But a 4.0 GPA will get you a job basically anywhere, because managers assume you’re a quick study. Sub-3.0 means they think you’re lazy or hard headed. When you’re skating near 2.0, you can have a degree in Rocket Science and recruiters will just assume you sucked at it.
Worked at a tech company that was hiring anyone with a 3.5+ from Data Scientists to English Lit majors. Then they just throw everyone into New Hire Training and gave them a coding crash course. The English Lit kids didn’t do any worse than the STEM crowd on the tech side. And they were way better at collaboration, documentation, and delivery.