I was recently rejected from a company after onsite round based on my GPA. I’m 1.5 years out of college. The first four interviews were great. I blew through the technical portions, and the behavioral interviews with managers went really well. I felt I connected with everyone and they really liked me. The last interview was with one of the cofounders of the company. He immediately sat down and asked my GPA, which was a 2.8. Then basically asked me to explain why I didn’t do better in college. The rest of the conversation didn’t seem to matter much after that. The company has a 3.7 GPA requirement for new grads (which i think is crazy), but I never expected anyone to care for an industry hire. I was rejected and after some talking with the recruiter I could basically tell from what they said that they picked someone with worse interview performance, but better GPA. That’s perfectly fine, but if you care that much about GPA, ask it in the application! Interviews are exhausting and time consuming and I felt my time was wasted. So my question is basically, was this okay for them to do or are they the asshole?
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Is it fair - no Is it illegal - no Can you do anything about it - no Both your options you are correct. They did you dirty and they can do anything they want
If they have a company policy then how did your application go through till the on-site? Either they are lying about the policy or the recruiter who screened you cannot read numbers.
I have a <2.5 GPA with ~2yoe, latest @FAANG. Do I need to be worried about my GPA holding me back for my next job?? When does someone stop being a “new grad”?
When they are leveled at L4, presumably I don’t think FAANG has GPA cutoffs tho
I know a lot of “old industries” - defense/auto/govt contractors - had GPA cutoffs back when I was interviewing during college, but didn’t see any guidelines outside of those. First time I’ve seen someone with 1.5 yoe still get rejected for GPA.
The only places that seem to check GPA are finance and consulting. About a decade ago, I seem to remember applying to McKinsey and them having a "3.5 cumulative in a hard science" requirement. That's the only place I ever saw that listed a cumulative GPA requirement, probably because people with a crap GPA tend to calculate major GPA and put that on the resume instead. At least they listed it on the application though, unlike what you experienced. Other places, like Goldman, will list no GPA requirement, but write "excellent academic performance" in the job ad. Let's be realistic though, you do realize plenty of top tier MBAs compete for those associate jobs, and none of them likely are a 3.0 or lower.
It’s a pure tech company. Pretty large too, worth a few billion.
Wow, that's pretty shocking. That still blows they didn't list this in the job ad.
A degree's a degree. Find another company, this was a red flag and you dodged a bullet.
Sadly, your college performance is a better representative of your work results than your interview is. I am just shocked they didn't require you to disclose it before. Such a waste of $ for them!
Unless it's a big shop in finance/consulting, if a company doesn't accept you based on GPA, the company is not worth your time. They will most likely fail to grow long term with that mentality.
It is up to them, but it is stupid. There is no strong correlation between gpa and long term job performance.
I mean, I don't tell them my real GPA I tell them the value I calculated one time I was drunk. I ain't lying, just purposefully ignorant.
Early in your career though companies may require transcripts which will have the real gpa
I agree that GPA matters the most for fresh college grads. I had an early hire coworker that was PIP'd out because his work output was awful. It turns out after they looked at his transcripts he had a 2.7 GPA.
What company? Must have been finance, tech doesn’t care as a lot of folks are college dropouts.