US recruiter’s leaked email exposes hiring criteria; non-Americans are big no, blacklists candidates from Indian firms | Company Business News

A Reddit user has claimed that a recruiter accidentally sent him her a “secret internal selection guidelines” that details about what to look for in a candidate. The leaked internal memo has ignited controversy online after revealing selective hiring criteria for software engineers.

The memo, which surfaced on Reddit two days ago, outlined stringent preferences, favouring graduates from elite universities while explicitly rejecting candidates from major tech firms such as Infosys, Wipro, and TCS or people from certain backgrounds.

The memostates that ideal candidates should have a “Bachelors or Masters of Computer Science from a top CS program” and specifically lists institutions such as MIT, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, Caltech, UIUC, and the University of Waterloo. It notes that “special exceptions” could be made for graduates from other schools, but only if they had a 4.0 GPA.

Additionally, the document emphasises hiring candidates with “4-10 years of software development experience,” expertise in modern JavaScript (TypeScript, NodeJS, ReactJS), and AI/LLMs, while discouraging applicants from big companies unless they had startup experience. It also explicitly rejects “job hoppers” and candidates from consulting backgrounds.