What happened these days is that company like Google and Microsoft higher smart and experienced students.
If you have 3.2 GPA and have experience with open source, you're qualified to be interviewed.
If you have 4.0 GPA, you're also qualified.
If you have 4.0 GPA and have experience (internship), you'll get an offer :).
It's both. Everybody wants the best talent available. For students coming out the school, GPA is what differentiate them the most because companies do not expect them to have tons of experience. They're hiring talent.
I don't know why we need this huge cultural shift and stuff like that because clearly our current systems are working fine.
There are outliers (people who have 4.0 GPA but sucks at coding), it's unfortunate but everybody has to deal with outliers everywhere and anywhere.
If you have 3.2 GPA and have experience with open source, you're qualified to be interviewed.
If you have 4.0 GPA, you're also qualified.
If you have 4.0 GPA and have experience (internship), you'll get an offer :).
It's both. Everybody wants the best talent available. For students coming out the school, GPA is what differentiate them the most because companies do not expect them to have tons of experience. They're hiring talent.
I don't know why we need this huge cultural shift and stuff like that because clearly our current systems are working fine.
There are outliers (people who have 4.0 GPA but sucks at coding), it's unfortunate but everybody has to deal with outliers everywhere and anywhere.