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> *SCORES MUST NEVER DEPEND ON THE FOLLOWING FACTORS:*
> - College, university, or educational institution name
> - CGPA, GPA, or academic grades
I don't understand why they would omit these factors from the evaluation.
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Hopefully so that people like me, that dropped out of high school yet have had a successful career as a self-taught engineer, have a chance. [1]
Just kidding, my resumes are sent to /dev/null like everybody else’s.
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1: In fact, I will be controversial and say that self-taught engineers tend to be the strongest in their own particular niche, because they are powered by sheer desire to learn and improve. I am routinely appalled by how many people go on forums to ask how to learn a new thing, completely unable to self-direct their learning. I blame the modern school system.
> I don't understand why they would omit these factors from the evaluation.
Only hiring MIT graduates sounds great to a lot of tech folks! Automatically rejecting applicants from HBCUs, however, sounds like a lawsuit
As to GPA thing, I think it's just to stop the LLM glomming onto an obvious numerical grade? LLMs like to rank things by obvious dimensions, and whether someone had a 4.0 or a 3.8 in grad school makes very little difference to their performance 10 years down the line.