How important are grades when applying for a job?
When it comes to studying, I'm dead lazy. Most of the time I couldn't care whether I get 70% or 99%, besides being somewhat happy after getting a 99% back. As a result my grades aren't all that good, especially for the courses I find boring. However, when it comes to practical tasks that one would get in industry I'm better than many of the students who obtain better grades.

How important are grades when applying for a job? Are there other things that you could do to make your CV look more impressive even with mediocre grades? For example, I do really well at programming competitions and teach other top students on algorithms and data structures that are beyond the scope of the university syllabus.

Obviously I'm referring to a job at a software engineering company, if that makes any difference.
How important are grades when applying for a job?
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When it comes to studying, I'm dead lazy. Most of the time I couldn't care whether I get 70% or 99%, besides being somewhat happy after getting a 99% back. As a result my grades aren't all that good, especially for the courses I find boring. However, when it comes to practical tasks that one would get in industry I'm better than many of the students who obtain better grades.

How important are grades when applying for a job? Are there other things that you could do to make your CV look more impressive even with mediocre grades? For example, I do really well at programming competitions and teach other top students on algorithms and data structures that are beyond the scope of the university syllabus.

Obviously I'm referring to a job at a software engineering company, if that makes any difference.