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<p>Not in my cousin’s experience. Also, one side of my family is heavily populated with engineers who were in positions to hire fellow engineering/CS folks…including that cousin later on who struggled to find employment because of his below 3.0 GPA. They included his father…a fellow engineer who sympathized with his son’s predicament…but made it clear that the son made his bed with his GPA and now must deal with the consequences. </p>
<p>It seemed even in that field, there are strong perceptions in some engineering/tech firms a fresh college grad who didn’t maintain a 3.0 or above either lacked the intellect and/or decent work ethic to be suitable for their entry-level positions…especially when they had plenty of 3.0 or higher candidates from comparable or higher-tiered engineering schools. </p>
<p>I think the only exceptions they’d make are the Federal Service Academies…but then again, they’d almost always be hiring them 5+ years out from college which places them in a position when their employment/military track record would be weighed more heavily. </p>
<p>And some companies were worse. A former supervisor who was a ChemE major in the late '70s recalled Exxon and other companies like them openly announced to his junior/senior class during a career interview period that they’re only willing to hire the MOST QUALIFIED students and said if students cumulative GPAs were less than 3.5, to not bother asking for an interview with them as they won’t be interested.</p>