Son about to graduate, no job offer yet.

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I’ve worked for mostly large companies in the last 25 years. I’ve seen GPA cutoffs. Things are probably different for smaller companies but there have been stories recently of companies getting inundated with resumes when they post positions and they have to have some method of picking one person out of a thousand resumes.

Sure, and I’ve worked for a big company, a medium sized SV company, and the government. I could post my individual experience but who cares? The notion that you need a 3.0 plus to even get a sit down for a job someplace makes zero sense statistically to me.</p>

<p>Some places, sure. You should always try to get the best GPA you can regardless. But just because you’re pulling a 2.7 senior year is no reason to drop out and throw in the towel.</p>

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Mark77 posted some remarkable stats on how many resumes some of the hot companies get for each position.

This I believe. The operative word being “hot.” If you just read this website you’d probably think all engineers work for the same 5 companies and all engineer’s primary job is writing some sort of software.</p>