I hate interviews like these...

[SampSon]

You should have walked out when he said that crap about everyone having a near 4.0 GPA.
That should have tipped you off that the interviewer is a poser and the company is going to fail.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: fritolays

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
"I felt real world experience is far more important for a field such as this. Anyone can take classes, memorize some stuff from a book, and spit it back out again come exam time, but when push comes to shove, I'll actually be able to use that knowledge to further benefit this company."

sweet.. I'm going to say something along this line in response for my other interviews

That sounds a bit obnoxious though; tone it down a little bit.

 

[BooGiMaN]

i dunno after that quip he made about the gpa and how the rest of them have a near perfect gpa i might have thanked him for his time and left..

last thing i would want is them shoving my nose in my gpa score when inevitable stress and murphys law kicks in..or maybe even when review time comes around....

thats just bs they should be hiring you for your value to the company not as a poster boy for perfect gpas

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: randay
"why is it so low?".
shake thier hand, thank them for thier time, and walk out the door.

Amen

Like you'd have the chance to do that! It's a company, they're already out to get you Dave. You'd walk in, they'd shake your hand and walk out the back door leaving you standing there with no job. 😀

 

[jinduy]

fritolays....

is the place you interviewed at start with a "B" ?

my friend got grilled with those same questions u were posed a few days ago. albeit it wasn't technical.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: fritolays
As soon as I step in, I get asked "what are your strengths"
then he asks for my GPA
I tell them... he says, why is it so low? (my gpa is slightly over a 3.0)
He says everyone that works here has "nearly a 4.0 perfect gpa" :roll:
The interview continued on in this fashion.. and I felt like I was being grilled the whole time
It's for a technical position.. I just want a part time job doing data analysis

They said they'll need to think about it and let me know next week

I assume you had your GPA on your resume when you submitted it to them right?

If so, when they said that eveyrone had nearly a 4.0, you should have just looked him in the eye and said "Well WHY IN THE FSCK did you ask me for an interview?" And get up and leave...

He'll be so completely shocked and dumbfounded at such a brilliant response that he will have no choice but to hire you.

=P

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: magomago
That is weird- I've never had an interview where they glanced at my GPA for more than a split second...and then they never bothered to bring it up. I do have a relatively decent GPA, and it seems like it gets overlooked so much and instead they grill me how I don't have technical experience - and in the end give me a job that isn't technical (which makes getting another technical job even HARDER because then then they say "well your experience is clearly non technical...so you don't have much "real engineering experience")

Ha... I've been to an intern interview like that. The job description was pulling/scanning and printing AutoCAD files yet they kept emphasizing that it was a "technical" job. Granted, it took me an entire semester to learn CAD, and 2 more to practice using it... and 5 minutes to print. However, it took 3 years of learning and practice to "master" Word and Excel, but that's considered garbage, highschool level skills.

 

[Injury]

Them: "Why was your GPA so low?"

You: "Because I felt it would be more worth my time and money to take challenging courses and learn some things that other people didn't rather than do the bare minimum allowed to make the claim that I'm a college graduate on my resume... and I did this while maintaining a job through all 4 years of college because I felt it would keep me motivated to do better in school if I had to pay for it myself than to just spend my parent's money and party in my spare time.

Them: "oh. Do you want an office with a view, I can take you to it right now, sir."

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: Imp

Originally posted by: magomago
That is weird- I've never had an interview where they glanced at my GPA for more than a split second...and then they never bothered to bring it up. I do have a relatively decent GPA, and it seems like it gets overlooked so much and instead they grill me how I don't have technical experience - and in the end give me a job that isn't technical (which makes getting another technical job even HARDER because then then they say "well your experience is clearly non technical...so you don't have much "real engineering experience")

Ha... I've been to an intern interview like that. The job description was pulling/scanning and printing AutoCAD files yet they kept emphasizing that it was a "technical" job. Granted, it took me an entire semester to learn CAD, and 2 more to practice using it... and 5 minutes to print. However, it took 3 years of learning and practice to "master" Word and Excel, but that's considered garbage, highschool level skills.

I so feel your pain.

At my first intern I did IMDS all day. Its like a BOM for the Auto Industry. BOM is Build of Materials incase anyone isn't familiar with the acronym. The auto industry uses IMDS and everyone was too old and sucked at PCs, so the program was ridiculously simple for me - they didn't eve know how to use it and just tossed it at me.

At my second one (Where they wouldn't let me do anything technical, stupid b/c I know some people who ARE doing technical work without prior experience) I am a "supply engineer". I consult to new outside companies on how to produce our parts most effectively...but that really means I read MRB history all day and find out if there is a process that is really hard. I don't even have to understand the process very well - just tell them where hard parts were. Aside form that I've been doing so much business and finance/managment junk all day, I think everyone forgot they hired me as an engineer and think I'm in purchasing. Hell on our "kaizen" (think of it as continous improvment projects) I got put on Material Finance/Planning instead of the Manfufactoring floor to set up a new cell...

In future interviews, unless its technical I'm not going to deal with it. And if they want to "put me eslewhere where my prior experience is a plus" (ie: the intern I'm doing right now) , I'm going to say no shake their hand and move along if they won't budge...


ast to the OP...sorry for thread jacking 😛

 

[Anghang]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
"I felt real world experience is far more important for a field such as this. Anyone can take classes, memorize some stuff from a book, and spit it back out again come exam time, but when push comes to shove, I'll actually be able to use that knowledge to further benefit this company."

:thumbsup:

 

[wyvrn]

Originally posted by: oogabooga
I always want to say something to the extent of "I never let getting good grades get in the way of my education" but it seems to canned and unbelievable.

I hate that during college I made no effort to get out of difficult classes or hard professors or difficult classes taught by hard professors and stuck through it. There is no way to prove that a B in some upper level course with this professor is worth more than the hand out A's to everyone who 'signed in' for attendance with some other professor. Sucks to me for not working the system.

I had the same issue, but I just studied hard enough to get good grades in any class I took. Of course there were a couple that it didn't matter what I did, I wasn't going to get an A.