Do top employers look down on foundation years?

NO

Only interested in the highest qualification you secured

Thanks your response!
That’s good to know. Is this not just for people who did foundation years because they took the wrong A Levels?
Do the top employers care if you did a foundation year in history though ? As it is a humanities subject ?

Quite a lot of the bigger firms have AAB as a filter for A levels otherwise they just have too many applications to assess them all.

No but why would you tell them anyway. Just say you have a degree.

But, would they not ask about why your degree is 4 years? They may think I repeated a year

But, would they not ask about why your degree is 4 years? They may think I repeated a year

95% of employers would never ask nor care.

Yes, but what about top employers?

They care even less.

Source?

Me, a senior Meta employee.

They care even less.

Not quite true - the larger law firms have pretty standardised applications and the vast majority ask for the length of your degree. You should not lie. You may get asked why 4 years in the interview stage (although probably unlikely), but I’ve not heard of a foundation year being negatively viewed particularly if you’ve performed well in the end.

Not quite true - the larger law firms have pretty standardised applications and the vast majority ask for the length of your degree. You should not lie. You may get asked why 4 years in the interview stage (although probably unlikely), but I’ve not heard of a foundation year being negatively viewed particularly if you’ve performed well in the end.

Yes, this is true of basically any application to any job, technically somebody can look at the degree length and ask why 4 years instead of 3 years, but as you say in practice it just doesn’t happen because frankly, it’s not relevant (and ya don’t lie, because there’s nothing to be ashamed about). Unless of course you took like 8 years to complete an undergrad, that’s beginning to look like My Cousin Vinny levels of incompetence.