Recruiter: I see you got a good degree, however, what were your high school results (A-levels)?

Me: why would you need them?
(they were average, but I tell the recruiter)

Recruiter: Oh, so you were pretty lucky to get a good degree.

Me: No... I worked really hard for it.

Recruiter: Anyway, my client only deals with people who got high grades in high school.

What the fuckkkkkkk?

#stopthismadness

Must be too many developers and not enough work!

@h3ll I can't stand them. Not that I'm an amazing programmer, but hey must lose out on so much talent.

Ha, I got rejected for an internship because of my A-levels result when the recruiter should be looking at my Year 2 degree result instead 😬

There's an asshat of a CEO locally where I live that literally asked my brother to leave mid interview because of his 3.375 GPA CS degree. My little brother don't take shit from anyone, so he Urlacher'd that motherfucker and told him that's fine, and he'd see himself out because he's got better shit to do than sit and have a dick measuring contest with a prick like him.

They called him back for an interview. He told them they had their chance.

@lquessenberry Your brother was lucky. That's not a good way to conduct an interview, whatever buttons they push.

Was on interview when they were interested in my university marks, I told them honestly that I don't remember and I think they are irrelevant. It was the first fishy thing, later asked aboit the actuall job and realized I'm terribly overqualified, spend some time trying to figure out how to decline politely but the recruiter received the feedback that they felt I'm not interested. Maybe my questions showed too much what I was thinking about the job. In the end, my experience is when they care more about marks/degree/certificates they are bullshit company and its better to keep away. My first employer actually lost somewhere the info that I have a degree. That is how much it mattered.

I am sure you will get something better than those ASSHOLES were offering

That is ridiculous. Any workplace with such a crazy requirement is not worth working for.

"Mm i see you got suspended two times in ptimary school. I m sorry but we dont want rebels in our corporation."

I couldn't switch to a CS degree as didn't have relevant A levels. I can and am however doing it as an msc..

@Letmecode what were your grades?

I used to be brainwashed with this sort of crap. Glad I opened my eyes. Nowadays I just want to make more and more cool stuff in my GitHub portfolio and let some cool company notice me instead of, you, being a pro of xcel

@spl0 don't know bout him but I had a 2.1 in high school (adhd and liked to skip school, never failed though), a 3.0 in college (straight A in any programming classes, even when I wasn't there)

Fuck recruiters! Motherfuckers probably never coded before, probably never went college and you dare tell me Im not good? Bitch do you how many hours I burn when ur fucking sleeping. Bitch suck my.....

Excuse my profanities

@spl0 lucky? No. Confident that the guy was a rude prick? Yes. Don't cower to assholes. Ever. Ever ever ever. The guy is a douche, and to insult someone's intelligence by abruptly ending an interview because he didn't exactly graduate Magna Cum Laude is not how he should have conducted the interview. He's the lucky one, or unlucky in this matter, because he's missing the opportunity to hire talented people with way more skills than a GPA will depict.

Lucked out. Companies who care about that usually praise people who game the system. You don't want to work for a company where people will take credit for your work, or where people will work hard to impress their managers rather than to contribute good things to the company and to the users.

@miska In my town there's a guy that owns a web agency started about 4 years ago. He prided himself on hiring only perfect scores. He interviewed prospects using high level PHP, MySQL, and other tests that are okay if you're out to better yourself, but not for hiring talent fresh out of CS who have been in theory and concept based courses for 4 years. Then he would deny the applicants. Mix that in with the fact that the rest of us either freelancing, Coworking, or contracting were drowning in Wordpress and Drupal sites and had been for years, and he'd set himself up for disaster approaching it this way. The end result is always garbage that his agency puts out. It ends up being a chimera of poorly written HTML, literally copy pasted HTML from Themeforest (not purchased), and terrible designs. The customers bounce and we redo shitty work that has been sold to them as honest work. They only complain his "support is terrible." Then we have to spend time re-educating the client.

Thankfully, some places are starting to realise that school/college/uni doesn't prepare anyone for working in the software industry. This is just old-school hiring practice that will die out when employers realise this more generally. But sorry you had to go through it.

@samk yeah I like codefights for this, if you beat the company's bot you usually get offered a job. atleast I got offered one by beating the asanabot