"gPa DoEsN't MaTtEr after your first job" I didn't put in enough effort during college freshman and sophomore year and got B's on a bunch of relatively easy gen ed classes and some lower division engineering classes. Starting junior year I got my shit together and went super tryhard mode on these upper division eng/CS classes, barely got any B's (only one B+ my entire senior year), but my GPA was already shot. I finished with GPA barely over 3.5 because these crazy hard classes are weighed the same as my B grades in freshman arts and womens studies, but Jane Street and Two Sigma don't know which is which when they just see a single GPA number. Now I have FAANG (not Amazon or Netflix) on my resume but I always get rejected at resume screening with trading firms. Even third party recruiters say the GPA isn't where they want it to be. Some other bullshit from CSCQ: - 120k in LCOL is equivalent to 400k in Bay Area/NYC - a big house and yard full remote in rural Bumfuckville, Alabama where the fanciest restaurant within a 20 mile radius is Applebee's is the only way to live (I'm not white so I gotta live near real food) - personal projects and personal website - everyone is a college student or mid 30s career changer TC: 360k depending on stock
I got 4.0 at a top CS school at have not been able to pass the resume round from a trade firm either. Correlation != Causation Also you can just remove it from your resume. People stop asking about your GPA once you reach 2 YOE aka SWE 2 level
I don't think you understand. Trading firms want to see your GPA no matter your YOE. If it isn't on your resume you'll need to fill it out on the job application or the 3rd party recruiter working with them will ask you to add it to your resume.
That’s because they get lots of applications. Just crush it in some other way and it won’t matter. Problem is you’re not standing out enough.
Cscq sucks. It's a circlejerk of mediocrity. They even autoremove posts that have FAANG company names in the title.
Why did I know it was going to be the finance industry who cared about GPA 😂 So old-school. You probably have to wear a suit to work every day too
Because they want compliment slaves .
No one actually wears a suit here unless you’re meeting with Ken, and even then there’s no requirement to at all. But yeah, it’s a lot more traditional than tech for sure.
I know someone who posts frequently on that subreddit and he regularly lies about his career salary and experience. I don’t know why anyone would take career advice from anonymous strangers on the internet OP. Have you considered maybe going to smaller companies at lower pay and getting experience that way after a couple of years when you have work experience to point to your GPA becomes less and less important. Like 2-3 in the trenches doing good work no one cares about your GPA
I don't think you understand. Trading firms want to see your GPA no matter your YOE. If it isn't on your resume you'll need to fill it out on the job application or the 3rd party recruiter working with them will ask you to add it to your resume.
Ok so go do work at other companies so you can say “yeah my gpa is low because i wasn’t serious starting in college but I bring all these other things to the table” A low GPA is meaningless if you can show you have skills to do the job. Maybe don’t do trading firms but companies that trading firms work with and respect. You can use network you’re in to then get someone to refer you in.
blind leading the blind > student with no work experience > gives feedback on resume > just got first job at f500 through sheer luck > "here's what you need to do to get into a FAANG"
Cscq is college kids answering career questions for college kids. Would you go seek a med student for medical advice? r/Experienceddevs is better but if you're at a decent company, going to senior people and asking for advice is probably better
My lying friend comments there too and lies. Seriously I don’t know why people trust strangers on the internet that their experiences there are true.
What is there to lie about? Advice is advice. Anyone with half a brain can incorporate advice and selectively reject what feels wrong. If it's quantitative information like comp, then Reddit is the wrong place to seek it out in the first place.
I don't know what companies you applied to, but if you applied to us and got rejected based on GPA then your GPA did you a huge favor 😃 I would say though, that I didn't see anyone here pay any attention to GPA ever when interviewing people for SWE positions, even though our workday questionnaire has this question.
Lol remove GPA from your resume, problem solved
Do people seriously put their GPA on their resume? I've gone through thousands in my career and I can't say I've seen a single one
It probably does more damage than help. It’s like including your criminal record if you have one
It matters for HFTs. They want to see GPA and school, it's the equivalent of the big law positions where having prestigious connections matters most.
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There could be a million reasons why you're rejected. GPA is probably the last of your concerns. That said, yes I agree Cscq is a cesspool.
I don't have a GPA because I never got a degree lol. Honestly doesn't matter. Maybe don't mention GPA on resume
Meta what's your level yoe and TC breakdown?