Does anyone look at the transcripts of PhD students when they are looking for jobs? Although it is generally believed that grades in one's PhD program are deemed as unimportant (so I am not asking whether grades are important for PhD students or not), I still see many PhD students include their GPA in their CV and I guess there might be a reason for them to do so.

I wonder if any company in industry or postdoc admission committee in academia need to look at the transcripts of job applicants (PhD students).
I wonder if any company in industry or postdoc admission committee in academia need to look at the transcripts of job applicants (PhD students).


There are 200 million companies globally, so the only possible answer is that some will and some won't. As discussed here, it usually does not make sense to use it for purposes other than internally tracking the students' progress. But as discussed elsewhere, people do this anyway. 

If you're asking whether there are any possible reasons for doing so, I can imagine the following:


To verify that they have the degree in question [though you don't need a transcript for this]
To see what kind of courses they took and what they already know [though this discounts whatever they learned in research, which is the whole point of a PhD]
To see if they failed classes or had to repeat classes [also not a good predictor for research]
To compare applicants against one another [but impossible to normalize]


Note also that in some countries, PhDs have no coursework and so there is no transcript to look at.