Criteria for Allowing New Team Members

[RunawayEngineer]

Originally Posted by Tanis

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. I agree that grades are very important for getting into the college you want, but I think that employers have been relying less and less on GPA to evaluate new hires. I also think that colleges are behind the times in this regard, but that's a different topic.

The company I work for probably wouldn't have noticed if I had left my GPA off my resume (and they certainly never asked about or requested a transcript). From what I've heard from other recent grads, this is becoming somewhat of a trend. Google has also made the news lately by stating that "GPAs are worthless as a criteria for hiring.".

I'd be willing to bet that Google still does what all large companies do for their normal recruitment process: put their resumes through computer filters that eliminate based on benchmarks - GPA included. You have to have a decent GPA for your resume to ever be seen by human eyes.