Way to inadvertently eliminate basically anybody who is neurodiverse. Most of the great engineers I know, myself included, had absolutely shit university records because brains don’t always do what they want to and university is rarely a motivating factor for people As the other commenter mentioned, rarely are the motivators the same between university and a job.
> Of course, we are not recruiting PHDs to do backend work, but people who did decently well in school are usually nice to work with.
What does someone’s grades have to do with how nice it is to work with them? I know people that aced their classes and are complete sociopaths, and I know people that dropped out of high school and are lovely to work with.
> There are brilliant dropouts, of course, but they are not the norm.
You say they exist, but you’d never consider them according to the rest of your comment.