Posted on 05/12/2022 6:00:38 AM PDT by grundle
he explained his seven-year journey from having a 1.2 GPA in college to now working for one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
he was a student at California Polytechnic State University and starting to watch YouTube videos from new Google employees, sharing how they’d gotten their jobs in just a few months.
The TikToker explains that he received poor grades in many classes during his freshman year. Those failures, though, ended up being a blessing in disguise, thanks to his school’s “exclude all” policy.
“The cool thing here is that getting a D or an F is arguably better than getting a C,” he explains.
If @nd10.tech had gotten a C in his failed classes, he couldn’t have retaken them. But, since he failed, he was able to replace those grades entirely, which gave his GPA a big boost.
After a year, he’d retaken his failing classes and doubled his GPA. Then, he changed his major to computer science.
From there, he formatted his résumé based on YouTube tutorials, which showed him what tech companies prioritize in their applicants. He eventually got an internship at Intuit, which paid him $38 an hour.
He continued to beef up his résumé and got a postgrad job at Microsoft, which paid him $160,000 per year.
“I think this is where my career really took off,” he says in the video. “I started having recruiters reach out to me instead of the other way around.”
Then he moved to Verily, a research organization operated by Google’s parent company, Alphabet. That job led him to now, where he has accepted an offer to work at Google for $344,000 a year.
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Cal Poly Pomona, or Cal Poly San Luis Obispo?
GPA isn't everything.
If it’s not stated then it’s SLO.
Over the years, I’ve seen many people that eventually burn out, but others that eventually burn in. He seems like the latter sort.
> After a year, he’d retaken his failing classes and doubled his GPA. <
I don’t have a problem with that. Let’s say he took calculus, and failed. Then he retook the class and got an “A”. Now this guy really knows calculus, and his transcript needs only reflect that fact.
Should that old “F” grade simply disappear? Why not? The guy knows his calculus now. Plus people fail classes for lots of reasons besides laziness. There are bad professors, for example.
My Calc 3 professor spoken broken English, and I couldn’t understand half of what he was saying. I was lucky to escape that class with a B-.
Proving that our education system is worthless and if you are smart and creative you can escape.
We must have been in the same class. I still don't understand Chinese.
When I got out and went to school, it was required that I take it again to complete my program. My school did not recognize the course I took in the military.
Now I REALLY know Basic Electronics. I actually learned a lot more taking the class the second time as I already had the concepts down and could now focus on the details.
My Calc 3 professor spoken broken English, and I couldn’t understand half of what he was saying. I was lucky to escape that class with a B-.
At the U of Idaho 50 years ago I had an Indian professor for Electrical Engineering 301. Couldn’t understand him. I still get headaches thinking about that class.
Of course, not dissimilar to watching a movie twice in some respect. People learn by reinforcement.
> We must have been in the same class. I still don’t understand Chinese. <
Yep, my Calc 3 professor was Chinese. I knew I was in trouble on the first day. He drew a diagram on the board, and started talking about “tang etch”. It took me about ten minutes to realize that he was talking about the tangent of x.
I purposely failed a couple of classes in College where I was heading for a 2.0 or 2.5, which would have made them ineligible to retake the class for a new grade and would have dragged down my GPA. By getting a 1.0, I could retake the course and only the new grade counted towards my GPA.
And this was in the early 1980s.
So, a $344,000 a year he’s now living in one room apartment is San Francisco? /s
Colleges massively disguise real student performances and GPAs with all aorta of fames now. There’s no turning an (Uncle Sam) paying customer away!
But yeah, this sounds like a smart and motivated kid figuring the system out.
Probably, yes.
That’s fine insofar as the ‘A’ is included on the transcript. But you are fudging thw record that a transcript was originally and long intended to be. Employers and grad schools are looking for intelligence when weighing a GPA or combing a transcript and if it took someone three tries to pass calculus that should be part of the official record.
My first year at college I was an immature 18 year old kid and stopped going to some classes and never bothered to drop them. So of course, I got “F’s”. Fortunately, the state had a mandatory grade forgiveness policy. I got my head on straight after that, retook those classes and replaced “Fs” with “As”. My GPA shot up to a 3.4.
Unfortunately when I was applying to law schools they had a policy of putting those “Fs” back in so it dragged down my GPA drastically. So even though I had a really good LSAT, it made it impossible to get into UF’s law school which is where I wanted to go. Kinda sucked to still be paying the price at 24 for being immature when I was 18 even after I had fixed everything but c’est la vie.
You didn’t read the article.
He’s an idiot who got lucky and parlayed his idiocy into a cash cow at one of the most hated & biased globalist corporations on the planet.
I can’t help but wonder if ‘he’ is one of the protected classes (entirely separate from his obvious Asian origin having bucked that trend in school).
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