   Does company look for your GPA?
  Does GPA matters to them? What if I get a really low mark, will they look for what I've made like engines, and games? I'm worried because I have a very low GPA, 2.2. I have a very good grades on most of my computer and math classes but sucks in chemistry, history, and etc. I don't know if I can get a good job with my GPA in the future. I felt that my dream company, Blizzard, ID Software, Crytek, and THQ are all gone.   
  By the way, our passing mark is 1.0. 0.0 is considered as Fail.   ;  No-one has ever looked for my GPA, I don't even know what it was to be honest.After your first job, your transcript is pretty useless - it's only required when applying for "graduate" level jobs. Most jobs in the industry are at an intermediate level where they're more interested in skills and practical experience than academics.   ;  I would agree with Hodgman.  For getting your first job, GPA is important.  They don't really have much else to go on unless you have personal projects you can show off, which would probably help alot.  After that, its more and more about previous work experience.My school would give me an overall GPA and then another GPA for classes that were "in my major," or something like that.  If your grades for history/english/etc aren't that great, you might want to list your CSci GPA seperately, if your school does that.  That would help the employer see that you are a good programmer, or have potential anyways.   ;  For people fresh out of college, I do look at their GPA... if they put it on their resume.  If they don't, I don't even bother asking for it.  A GPA number on a resume gives hints or clues about the person I'm about to interview, but I can't count the number of times a resume didn't match what I thought about the person on the other end of the phone.  I've had horrible resumes turn into people who breeze through our questions, and I've had very impressive resumes turn into people who bombed every single question.A resume gets your foot through the HR door.  It's up to you after that (at least where I work).   ;  As others have said, it does matter on your first job - especially the big graduate training schemes for big companies e.g. banks.That said, you're not in the UK so it likely doesn't matter so much.  The thought here is that you need a 2.1 Honours (comparison with the US system near the bottom) then you're likely to have problems.  The main problem here is that the Government have pushed so many people through tertiary education which leads to the result of there being too many graduates with watered down, devalued qualifications chasing an ever shrinking number of jobs due to us having one of the sharpest recessions in the developed world.So I would say get the best degree you can possibly get to give yourself the best chance at running the HR gauntlet, then beyond that it's all down to experience and practical skills directly related to the job.  I have always felt exams to be ludicrously useless as tools of assessment so I wouldn't get hung up on them if you can avoid it.   ;  I'm still at my first job (well, 2nd I guess, because I'm still at the same company, but had to apply for my position at the new studio), and my GPA was never asked. My GPA wasn't all that great, so I left it off. The guy who hired me never asked what it was. He was only concerned with the interview, my portfolio, and the test he gave me.   ;  DarkBalls >> Are you asking about high school GPA or higher education?High school GPA (read: high school anything) is worth jack shit in the games industry. Higher education is about getting a degree, not how well you got it. Actual experience and a portfolio trumps everything a hundred times over.If you have a good GPA then you can show it -- anything that makes you look good is a help -- but if its bad just never mention it. On the very odd chance someone asks, you can dodge the question by saying how well you did in classes more relevant to the job.   ;  They can't look for something that isn't there. I've always declined to answer, and if they're not interested in hiring without it, screw them. And so far I've worked for Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Day 1 Studios, and shipped a game too.   ;Quote:Original post by PromitThey can't look for something that isn't there. I've always declined to answer, and if they're not interested in hiring without it, screw them. And so far I've worked for Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Day 1 Studios, and shipped a game too.Yeah IMO it's something I'd be inclined to leave off a resume since in my experience I only know of a couple of instances where I've seen it asked:Applying to graduate schoolApplying for an internship at a place like JPL where last time I checked you need something like a 3.3.Applying for government jobs where they actually start you off at a higher payrate and position if you have something like a 3.8 or higher.