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by learc83 1573 days ago
When was this? Maybe If you’re talking exclusively about FAANG.
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I’m too young to know from my own experience but from what I’ve heard early 2000s.
I was around in the early 2000s, and you certainly didn’t need a 3.5 GPA from a top tier school for anything but a very small handful of companies.

In the early 2000s, you could get decent work just knowing HTML.