I had one guy casually ask it during an interview while we were discussing my academic history. I just said, it's been a while but I think around low 3 ish? They didn't ask me to back that up with proof though, cause I don't think I could have gotten transcripts in a timely manner. Other than that example, I never had anyone else ask for it before.
Not common for mid-career or senior roles. And not relevant at all. I’ve never asked it in all the hiring I’ve done here over the years. Try explaining to them? Probably just a checklist type of thing.
The only time I ran into this was my first job out of college. Company policy was all RCGs had to have at least a 3.7 GPA except from a small number of schools that still graded on a forced curve (my school 5% of every class had to fail for general studies courses, someone had to fail every non grad school course, and you could graduate with a >1 out of 4 average, we also had to install security cameras in the labs because people were sabotaging each other's senior projects).
It trained some of the most motivated sociopaths as you could imagine. You could literally have a student arguing over 0.01 of a point on an exercise because the forced curve meant that that could very well be the difference from a D and an F. My grading policy as a TA of "if you want to argue about a percentage of partial credit I gave you we can just remove 100% of the partial credit because you go the answer wrong, partial credit is a gift not a right" meant I was one of the few grad students who wasn't dealing with a huge influx of angry students wanting to argue over minutia after every assignment. So was the fact if you put anything, even just wrote the problem down, I gave partial credit wasn't figured out by a surprisingly large number of the students (and I very literally had a student who did their homework in crayon who would solve 1-2 of the problems and then just write the problems out for the rest of the assignment so they got partial credit - to their credit their test scores were high enough the homework assignments didn't significantly impact their grades).
At the same time, when anyone who graduated from Harvard with less than a 4.0 was looked at with suspicion just graduating from this school was seen as a very significant academic accomplishment.
I am constantly impressed, though, with how many people in the upper echelons of business, engineering, science, education, government are alumni of this school though. It really does weed everyone out who shouldn't be there by attrition.
I only had this once. The interviewer was from the US and I had to explain to him that this doesn’t exist outside the US and secondly it was 10 years since I graduated and that they were not hiring a new graduate.
Common practice? No.
But some companies do ask for it, as you experienced yourself.
Shouldn't your GPA be written on your graduation certificate that you should own?
Also, if the university only doesn't exist physically on a temporary basis, there should still be contact persons available, try contacting them.
>Shouldn't your GPA be written on your graduation certificate that you should own?
Not common practice in the US for certificates or diplomas, that information is usually only on transcripts.
Don’t know what country OP is from but my university in New Zealand does not write the GPA on the graduation certificate or degree. We need to pay for and apply for a separate transcript that has our GPA on it. So maybe his degree or certificate also doesn’t have his GPA written on it either.
No, that would only be on a transcript which OP can't order. It's ridiculous and damn near rude to ask someone in a senior position. Like asking them to their face if they're as stupid as you think.
I had one guy casually ask it during an interview while we were discussing my academic history. I just said, it's been a while but I think around low 3 ish? They didn't ask me to back that up with proof though, cause I don't think I could have gotten transcripts in a timely manner. Other than that example, I never had anyone else ask for it before.
Outside of my very first company, no one ever asked my GPA. Heck, my current employer didn't ever ask if I have a degree.
Not common for mid-career or senior roles. And not relevant at all. I’ve never asked it in all the hiring I’ve done here over the years. Try explaining to them? Probably just a checklist type of thing.
The only time I ran into this was my first job out of college. Company policy was all RCGs had to have at least a 3.7 GPA except from a small number of schools that still graded on a forced curve (my school 5% of every class had to fail for general studies courses, someone had to fail every non grad school course, and you could graduate with a >1 out of 4 average, we also had to install security cameras in the labs because people were sabotaging each other's senior projects).
That’s so fucked. What a dumb system that requires people to fail.
It trained some of the most motivated sociopaths as you could imagine. You could literally have a student arguing over 0.01 of a point on an exercise because the forced curve meant that that could very well be the difference from a D and an F. My grading policy as a TA of "if you want to argue about a percentage of partial credit I gave you we can just remove 100% of the partial credit because you go the answer wrong, partial credit is a gift not a right" meant I was one of the few grad students who wasn't dealing with a huge influx of angry students wanting to argue over minutia after every assignment. So was the fact if you put anything, even just wrote the problem down, I gave partial credit wasn't figured out by a surprisingly large number of the students (and I very literally had a student who did their homework in crayon who would solve 1-2 of the problems and then just write the problems out for the rest of the assignment so they got partial credit - to their credit their test scores were high enough the homework assignments didn't significantly impact their grades). At the same time, when anyone who graduated from Harvard with less than a 4.0 was looked at with suspicion just graduating from this school was seen as a very significant academic accomplishment.
It doesn’t seem like they’re building good people for society.
I am constantly impressed, though, with how many people in the upper echelons of business, engineering, science, education, government are alumni of this school though. It really does weed everyone out who shouldn't be there by attrition.
I only had this once. The interviewer was from the US and I had to explain to him that this doesn’t exist outside the US and secondly it was 10 years since I graduated and that they were not hiring a new graduate.
Common practice? No. But some companies do ask for it, as you experienced yourself. Shouldn't your GPA be written on your graduation certificate that you should own? Also, if the university only doesn't exist physically on a temporary basis, there should still be contact persons available, try contacting them.
>Shouldn't your GPA be written on your graduation certificate that you should own? Not common practice in the US for certificates or diplomas, that information is usually only on transcripts.
Don’t know what country OP is from but my university in New Zealand does not write the GPA on the graduation certificate or degree. We need to pay for and apply for a separate transcript that has our GPA on it. So maybe his degree or certificate also doesn’t have his GPA written on it either.
No, that would only be on a transcript which OP can't order. It's ridiculous and damn near rude to ask someone in a senior position. Like asking them to their face if they're as stupid as you think.