Book Discussion: Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned From Google

I always hear people say, "Just when you think you know someone, you actually don't."  In my case, I I realize that while I think I know everything about myself, I actually don't.  Just look at this book that I just fished out from my moving box from years ago!  I don't remember why I bought this book. I didn't major Marketing in college, and I'm not working in the marketing field. I don't even remember where I bought this book. It's in brand new condition, a hardcover.  So obviously,  I had never read it, but I own it.  Should I list this for sale on my Bookshelf Clearance page or should I hang onto it for a while?

After reading a few pages of this book, all I know about Google is it hires tens of thousands of its employees largely using one baseline criteria, which is a college GPA of  3.0 or higher.  I'm surprised that being an innovative tech company, Google is having such an old school paradigm on hiring talents.. As a very minor Google stockholder, I'm a little alarmed by this...

If I have my own business, I will not use GPA as my hiring criteria.  It's because I didn't graduate with a GPA of 3.0, and I understand that there are a lot of reasons why people didn't.  In my case,  those English classes that I took that kept giving me a C grade were the drag of my college GPA, I should have dropped them but like the way I hang on to bad books, I hung onto those classes.till it became too late to drop. My college also has a bad policy that any withdrawn classes with a "W" will stay on the transcript forever even though they are retaken to score an A.  I hate looking at my college transcripts.  I don't have them anymore because I shredded them. The diploma is all I keep.  So, if I were to apply for a job at Google, I wouldn't even have a transcript to show...  I never tried applying for a job at Google though. I just never thought of it because Google is headquartered in a town where rent has always been too high.  So by putting housing affordability as my job hunting criteria, I potentially saved myself from the rejection and humiliation from Google.

What should people do if they don't have a college GPA of 3 or higher to score a job with Google?  Well, if I can't get a job with the company, may be I'll just buy its stocks. In my case, graduating with a less desirable GPA isn't the end of my world.  May be my world would have been better and easier otherwise, but I don't want to sweat over things that I can't change at the moment. My GPA is what it is, it's water under the bridge, and obviously a less than desirable GPA doesn't deprive people the money to hoard too many books that they don't even have time to flip open.

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