Companies these days have this weird fetish where they take all the best nerds with the best grades from colleges and then only accept those.

It's now the opposite of what it used to be. No humility, no 'average Joe'. That stuff belongs to the 90's, it seems. Now we have a bunch of pink unicorn overachievers and the rest of the people just can't catch a break. lol

idk nobody ever cared about my marks. wish they did cuz my GPA equivalent was 120% tehe (people kept failing and the teachers kept curving the marks)

I also really gotta wonder about being good at school really not reflecting being good at life. I wonder if learning to be good at school ends up a disability in life

Having some form of accreditation shows that someone has approved your skills and vouched for the time put in.

If you don't have that, you need another way to prove skills right? I wouldn't want to just accept anyone based on "Trust me bro".

The other side of that is the folks initially reviewing the application won't have a clue what anything you share means if it is from something like github. But they will know what an accredited degree is.

I stopped putting my GPA on my resume a long time ago. It wasn't very good either; 2.51 for undergrad and 3.22 for grad school.

Honestly doesn't matter at all. People care more about what you've actually done and what you actually know.

i didn't even college lmaoooo

anyway whats the name of that stupid site where people solve trivial coding problems with no practical application for internet points that mean jackshit?

thats what nerds are good at, and thats what a lotta companies design interviews after. put two and two together.

in general i consider it a mark of ineptitude. if you've taken the time to be that good at solving math class style problems then you ain't ready for the real world, i'm afraid.

also downvoting for smap~

@torbuntu I have two accredited degrees. My point is that they only get those with summa cum laude.

@djsumdog Decent grades, I'd say. 3.22 is pretty good.

@jestdotty Damn, 120. Well done, jestdotty! At my college it was the same - students kept failing the rigorous methods and the professors tried to lower the standards a bit so they would get more subsidiary money from the government. lol

You know what it is? And I've seen this at companies - it's these frat bros wanting only guys of their kind. It's the kind of stenchy atmosphere that is present at ivy league schools. So yeah, elitism.

You guys went to school???

I started programming in C at 14 years old.

I liked this take of Turk from 'Scrubs' regarding the scores: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview... .

While !always the case, scores don't really mean much.

I was party animal, not much school, but I was actually in every class 😁 Never had issues finding a job, have thick diverse resume bevause I worked a lot in outsourcing. I only got one time asked for education ever. They always assumed I have one. There is always that one moment they found out I hadn't. Many times a painful moment, you see the respect almost disappearing in their eyes.

@whimsical > 'I hadn't. Many times a painful moment, you see the respect almost disappearing in their eyes.'

Having a piece of paper doesn't mean _that much_. It could always be the case a person had paid off someone to get it. Or they have the wrong piece of paper.

'Oh, you have a doctorate in social gender justice goobaligoo? How fascinating... You must be very smart, indeed...'.

/s

Social gender justice is a fascinating field

But yeah school is stupid. Nobody needs a degree. I could become a heart surgeon tomorrow if i wanted to