Do companies check your grades when they hire you?

>>2857476
They check your degree.

OP- You're fucked.

OP is screwed, just like I fucked myself over too. say goodbye to financial aid, if you still have it.

>>2857478
Yeah I probably am. Oh well I can always an hero.

>>2857486
Nah I pay for it. Community college is really cheap.

>>2857454
lol craigslist. lol.

9/10

It depends on what you want to do OP. Personally I've been taking for classes for the actual knowledge, yet I have no plans to graduate. The last job I got hired at asked if I had a degree, when I told them yes they never bothered to do any sort of check.

The thing is social networking really is more important. I know a bunch of people with kickass jobs who landed them just because they knew someone who worked there, and knew how to take an interview.

my last firm never checked out undergrad degrees. as long as you could hack the interviews, you were fine. that was for low-level stuff, though. the positions that required graduate degrees also required transcripts, along with recommendations, sometimes publications, etc.

>>2857503
what? you can find local jobs in your city on there if you search right.

>>2857495
have fun paying $1600 out of your pocket. and don't forget the costly books!

Oh shut the fuck up you lazy arrogant assholes.

If you're there to learn for real, then learn for real and take the exams. do the presentations and turn in the papers. On the premise that knowledge is the reason you're there, it's irrational not to do the things aforementioned since they are all in some way productive for your learning.

>>2857542
Why should they? Once they learn the shit then who cares what grade they get?

ITT dumbasses who can't pass college and try to rationalize it

>>2857548

You must be fucking retarded. Think about this, as opposed to only passively assimilating knowledge, the act of writing a paper or doing an assignment or even taking a test forces one to think about the subject more intensely and thoroughly.

I didn't say anything about grades. Although, if you get shit grades when you're supposedly there to learn for real, you're either deceiving yourself or you're fucking retarded and should do something else. I suppose both could apply as well.

And besides, when you want to learn for real, either as a means to an end or just for the hell of it... WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO GET THE DEGREE WHEN THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO REASON NOT TO?</CC>

>>2857542
lol sorry, i paid for the damn schooling, i think i should grade myself.

>>2857606
Cuz man fuck the system. Learn for the sake of learning not for arbitrary grades or degrees.

>>2857476
Yes. It pretty much goes like this:

- Company has a position open with 100 applicants.
- Due to time constraints, they only interview 5
- The lower 95 people (based on CV) are therefore instantly dropped.

If there's a choice between "hay guys, I'm totally great at this" and "hay guys, I'm totally great at this AND I have the certification from an accredited university to back it up" it's always the latter.

Sure, experience might make up for a degree, but it has to be actual reliable experience - usually a senior position in a major company held for several years. And you won't get into such a position while you have shit references.

So yeah, you don't need a degree, but it'll usually take you 15+ years of hard (read: helpdesk, support, shit like that) jobs to get enough *valid* experience to compensate.

oh know, we're agrivating the grading police of /g/
everyone watch out
having fun pleasing your teacher both on and off of campus geeks.

striving for 4s in all classes this semester.
but some are just ridiculous, they set the line at 95%. who the fuck is gonna do that good?

They should get rid of grades altogether.

>>2857631
due to time constaints?
maybe those jerk offs should've started looking thru those apps EARLIER and done a more thorough search. lazy fucks.

>>2857623

I do hope you're trolling.

Grades are the exact opposite of arbitrary. DON'T JUST THROW AROUND WORDS YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.

I really fucking do hope you're trolling.

>>2857637
seconded.

>>2857576
Half this. When you're 18-25 and you have no experience that's worth anything (and working at your redneck town's supermarket isn't valid experience), you need a degree. When you're 45 and you're going from executive position to executive position between corporations, they'll care about whom you know, with whom and on what you worked, and what you can actually demonstrate you've brought to the table before.

You could wipe your ass with your degree at 40 and later, but only because you relied on it long enough when you were a bright-eyed idiot to stand on your own.

Wait, is it sunday evening? Oh yeah, that explains why /g/ is shit.

>>2857648
Let me rephrase this: All those 95 losers just aren't worth wasting money on, so why interview them? "Time constraints" simply means that they're not worth the time (in monetary terms) of interviewing. Sure, you might miss that hidden guru who's been hiding on an island for the last 20 years completing his secret code ninja training, but most likely you'll just miss 95 incompetents...

Well looks like my future is fucked. An hero or criminal are my only choices now.

>>2857454
>If I just take classes for the sole purpose of gaining the knowledge and say fuck grades
>they mostly just require experience not degrees.

So do you have experience? Have you coded stuff that you can show to employers?

rofl

so sad to see college dropouts trying to justify their FAILings.

"I jus want to learnz aboutz da wurldz...knowledgez is mo importants than paper degrezz"

"Duuurrrrr I'm 18 and I hav plentyz of EXP to justify my no degree status"

You might not agree with the college process, hate the grades, and think the entire system is fucked, but it's just one hurdle you need to jump over in order to move upwards in society. There is a GLUT (SAT vocab omg!) of educated men and women in most first world countries and that's the first criterion any decent company will use to weed out the white collar from the blue collar.

If you can't even get over that easy, single hurdle then I'd like a #1 with fries and a coke. Take my order son! Enjoy your McDonalds career, your trailer park home, and your lower class status.

Senior in college here.
I'm about to fail a class that I need to graduate next semester and it isn't offered next semester. I don't even know if I've picked the right major now and am looking forward to working at McDonald's for a while.

>>2857857
If I end up like that then I will have nothing to lose and I will kill bitches like you with no remorse.

Op you'll do just fine,
Keep your chin up bro,
Never give up.

>>2857631
Listen to this man. In this economy, employers can be very picky about who they hire. This isn't the dot com bubble when any shithead that said a few buzzwords in an interview could get hired.

>>2857697
A college degree isn't required for life; only about 25% of people ever get degrees. Go out, get a job, maybe try again when you're ready.

>>2857928
You NEED a degree! The studies that were paid for by college recruiters say so!

>>2857872 working at McDonald's for a while
Dude, we're in the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression where there was 25% unemployment. You're going to be shiving people with the same degree you have plus fifteen years experience to get a McDonald's job.

>>2857965
>You're going to be shiving people with the same degree you have plus fifteen years experience to get a McDonald's job.
That would be..no degree?

>>2857985
Definitely college educated. Who else would be nitpicking when he should be sharpening his shiv?

>>2857965

Maybe so if you're working in Finance or the auto industry. If you are, GG.

For those of us who actually understood how the system worked (i.e. need a degree), decided to work within the system (obtaining said degree) instead of bitching and complaining about why there are grades and classes and professors, and then finally deciding to proceed with further education by getting a graduate degree in some profession (i.e. medicine, law, academia): things look the same way they did yesterday and will look more or less the same tomorrow.

Now, after I graduate, I will definitely enjoy my six figure starting salary. I'll have my secretary make a note to remind me to donate to the local soup kitchen so they can feed the rest of your starving asses who decided college degrees were too hard. Lulz.