Back in 2004, I had a phone screen with the folks at Time, Inc., for a systems admin position. Now, I'd been out of school for about 10 years at that point. The interviewer's first question was "what was your GPA in college?", and I was forced to confess I honestly didn't remember.

He stammered a bit, apologizing, and then hung up on me. I've always considered that dodging a bullet. It's a weird thing to ask someone with many years of professional experience. The only thing I could infer was that all of their staff were very young, and this was still relevant to them.

But then, every organization has it's quirks.

I remember an interview with a French company (in the UK) a few years ago - when they realized I had arrived in tech via a vocational route it got very frosty.

I always put my GPA on my resume. I'm always hoping somebody will mention it and nobody ever does.

Did you not have to submit transcripts of your results?

At no point in my career, even fresh out of school, has anyone asked me for this.

I think the only company that has ever asked me for this has been Google.

Why would I care about how someone did on some contrived tests 10 years ago?

to prime your biases for when you watch them endure your company's contrived tests

What can people even do with that info though? You can’t compare universities as each course is different. So I guess you can compare two people at the same university? Not very useful is it.