Overview

• The firm advertised junior frontend, backend and QA roles on LinkedIn with salaries up to ₹20 lakh and received 12,000 applications
• After filtering, 450 candidates reached interview stage but most used AI tools like ChatGPT and couldn’t explain their code’s logic or complexity
• A Reddit post by the company detailing these gaps went viral and prompted scrutiny of its technical evaluation criteria
• Industry observers criticized the existing approach and proposed quiz-based assessments as a preliminary filter before live interviews
• The company has paused its current process and is exploring alternative screening methods to better gauge genuine coding skills