<p>I wouldn't exactly agree that GPAs are worthless, but I agree with the point "Google has finally decided that academic excellence is just that -- academic."</p>
<p>Google:</a> GPAs are worthless | Technically Incorrect - CNET News</p>
<p>They’ve moved away from those useless brain-teaser interview questions, too.</p>
<p>[Google</a> admits challenging questions don?t improve hiring - SFGate](<a href=“Google admits challenging questions don’t improve hiring”>Google admits challenging questions don’t improve hiring)</p>
<p>While a nice lead in title it’s not entirely accurate.
I have no idea why a company would ask for college grades for anyone who has been out of school for a few year but apparently Google did do that.</p>
<p>GPA is not the only thing that matters - [Google</a> hiring non-graduates - Business Insider](<a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-non-graduates-2013-6]Google”>Google Hiring Non-Graduates)</p>
<p>I think it’s cool that companies like google were entrepreneurial enough to try these practices out, see if they worked. I’m also glad that they’ve been monitoring the results and are now being responsive to the bad news.</p>
<p>I don’t like this at all. College education used to be worth somethign big, but now more and more data shows it’s waste of money and even a scandal. Companies like Google are sending out a message that education is worth nothing and we shouldn’t even be in school. These companies favor other skills not found in education, but have ever stopped to think that maybe going to school is the only way to acquire them? We may not learn them directly, but we’ll learn them along the way. But you’re dissuading us from going to school, we’ll never be qualified for anything.</p>
<p>It was bad enough recently that college education became a basic requirement by employers instead of something valuable; that was bad, but at least there was still motivation to get education. But what Google has done is taking things too far. How long will be before even graduate degrees become just papers to start a bonfire? After that, how long will it before education becomes this country’s last priority? When that happens, you’re looking at every person in this country to be uneducated, illierate, and making the stupidest decisions you’ll ever see.</p>
<p>Today there’s more slackers who never went to school getting jobs while people who actually went to school are homeless. Education in this country needs to reform, but simply calling it useless is not the way to go.</p>
<p>Darkknight…have you ever heard lf a slippery slope fallacy?</p>
<p>Uh, google found little correlation between GPA and success (by google’s standards). Not about actually going to college.</p>
<p>Re: [Google</a> hiring non-graduates - Business Insider](<a href=“http://www.businessinsider.com/google-hiring-non-graduates-2013-6]Google”>Google Hiring Non-Graduates)</p>
<p>Yes, people with no college degree can get hired to good jobs. But these are more likely to be those with good self-education, and the ability to prove it.</p>
<p>One of the richest men the world has ever known Andrew Carnegie did not have a degree. He also did not know a thing about the steel industry. He did know how to deal with people and that was a major contribution to his success. He surrounded himself with intelligent people. “Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the services of better men than himself.” If you want to get a job at Google it is really good to know someone at google. What they wont teach you in business school is the way you deal with people. And he knew just that.</p>
<p>College grads still earn far more in a lifetime than non-college grads. Wonder how true that’ll be in 30 years.</p>
<p>‘GPA’ still is a factor in getting into good law schools, MBA programs, good jobs out of undergrad, etc. And those top grad programs can get you jobs at companies who only recruiter from top schools.</p>
<p>Yea but you can supplement that average or below average GPA with good work experience and/or high Gmat scores but a GPA still matters.</p>