It appears a high grade point average from a top school is now a liability.
At least at Google. The web goliath has spent years analyzing who succeeds at the company and have learned it isn’t the know-it-all with the pedigree, reports QZ.com
Apparently those with high grades lack the integral “intellectual humility”.
In other words, they take credit for when something good happens and blame all but themselves when something otherwise happens.
Further many schools don’t deliver on what they promise. A whole lot of money seems to be going to waste.
Google is now looking for people with learning ability — which means be able to process on the fly and pull together disparate bits of information — and the skill to argue passionately for a point yet be able to concede that someone else has a better idea.
It is turning out that often the most exceptional people are those without college, says QZ.
High GPA Now Liability
They’re just figuring this out now?