[zumda]

So, in short, big companies still don't get there doesn't have to be a correlation between GPA, educational background and actual skill to work?

Today with the internet, blogs, Github and other such things, I just don't get it!

[shawnwall]

Some big companies do, just not the ones you'd probably care to work at. If they make this choice they simply lose out on a certain set of individuals. Their loss, not yours.