Expand my horizons on colleges where employers, esp. Silicon Valley, recruit from

[Mastadon]

This is one reason Google casts such a wide net. They do not weigh “academic performance” as heavily as they used to.

Candidates’ past academic performance wasn’t predictive either, Bock said – a stunning admission for a company that’s notoriously stuffed to the gills with PhDs.

“Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.'s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school,” Bock said. “We found that they don’t predict anything.”

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/20/google_hiring_procedures/