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When was this? Maybe If you’re talking exclusively about FAANG.

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.