<p>Unless that older person has more relevant experience, I highly doubt it. I am one of the people who reviews and interviews engineers to come in and work and the reason that an older person is hired is because that they have more relevant experience (which they usually do). Someone with no relevant experience coupled with low gpa and finish university in 6 years raises more than 1 redflag… heck I don’t even think it can go past our HR or any HR department of a big company. </p>
<p>Our yearly engineering graduate program hires 8 out of 1000 applicants, would you think there would a filter to cutoff people that are “struggling” and look for people that shows they can achieve such as by graduating faster (in fact there are 2 we hired last year that did just that with relevant co-op experience cause we know that they could handle the stress, and in the end, they are doing quite well).</p>
<p>I am also involve in an engineer association where this has been brought up before and alot of managers and supervisors in different eng companies has said the samething (o yeah, they also said they would also not consider people that went straight to masters without a few years of experience, but I guess that is for another story).</p>