| Um you show them projects and such. My resume is long, ive worked on alot of teams, ive done research. I just let them know in the interview who I am and what I know. You cant say that tests and grades mean everything. I have a learning disability and suck at tests, but how does that say I am a bad engineer, hell no it doesn't. It doesn't because I excelled in labs and my professors knew I knew the material, I just sucked at tests. All of my referrals were great, even though I had low grades.
I have done a lot also, I have done Google Summer of code 2x in a row, worked for Atto, IBM and in the labs at my school. I have done research in VSLI, I did a lot of graduate level research, ive worked in my schools Cedar program in handwriting recognition, as well as data mining for the USPS. Ive done a lot projects to. I have all of this documented and have very high words from my professors.
So I didn't need good grades, because I couldn't of done the research and projects if I didn't know the material. Its sad that most classes are basses mostly on tests, but thats how it is and i am already through it.
I have alot of friends on different online forums, many engineers whom I talk to frequently and some even work in HR. Ive been told by them that grades rarely matter and thats what reassured me a few years ago. Guess what they were 100% correct. |