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I've been phoned by the company even with a average 95/110 and 1 year late bachelor in Computer Engineering. They asked me to solve a 30 problems in 40 minutes, ranging from Math to signal manipulation and Electronics, plus C and VB6 programming (the things I actually do 80% of my time).

But many employers use the grade and I can understand: you can sort people automatically. When you have tohusands of requesters you cannot simply interview each and every one of them and give them a numerical grade (a choice criterion) to decide. You need to peel off first in order to reduce the the order of magnitude of the requesters to the tens.

One who passed with high marks allegedly shows a result-oriented mindset and a certain degree of self discipline, two prized qualities. Of course it is a blind criterion, for example a working student in a tough university may have harder times, less time to study and lower grades despite being better than the "eternal students", the ones who really can study by heart even Engineering exams (trust me, they exist and they are growing. You know them - "how can i do thad give me codes plzzzz").
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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