Recently, a software company expressed their dissatisfaction on Reddit after not hiring any applicants for a junior developer position. According to the anonymous firm's advertisement, 450 of the approximately 12,000 applicants were interviewed. But in the end, it chose not to recruit anyone, stating that many candidates relied too much on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies for coding without fully comprehending the underlying reasoning.
"We recently posted a job opening on LinkedIn for junior Frontend/Backend Devs and QA roles, offering a salary range of up to Rs 20L. Over 12,000 people applied. We filtered out more than 10,000 candidates due to insufficient skill sets or resumes that didn't align with the role, not because we want to be harsh, but because we don't want to waste candidates' time as well as ours by putting them through interview rounds only to reject them later," the company wrote.
"We even allowed candidates to use GPT to solve problems. However, when we ask about time or space complexity, or an explanation of the code they just wrote, many are unable to respond," it added.
Junior developers were eligible for the position, however they received unintelligible responses despite the corporation allowing the use of ChatGPT and similar tools during the process.
According to the report, "We even allowed candidates to use GPT to solve problems," but many were unable to answer questions regarding time or space complexity or a description of the code they had just written.
The majority of applicants were "vibe coding," copying and pasting AI responses without understanding the underlying logic, the hiring team noted.
This has made it almost impossible to find candidates who actually know what they're writing, the post claims.
The business acknowledged that the entire experience has made it wonder how to improve its hiring practices moving ahead.
"We recently posted a job opening on LinkedIn for junior Frontend/Backend Devs and QA roles, offering a salary range of up to Rs 20L. Over 12,000 people applied. We filtered out more than 10,000 candidates due to insufficient skill sets or resumes that didn't align with the role, not because we want to be harsh, but because we don't want to waste candidates' time as well as ours by putting them through interview rounds only to reject them later," the company wrote.
"We even allowed candidates to use GPT to solve problems. However, when we ask about time or space complexity, or an explanation of the code they just wrote, many are unable to respond," it added.
Junior developers were eligible for the position, however they received unintelligible responses despite the corporation allowing the use of ChatGPT and similar tools during the process.
According to the report, "We even allowed candidates to use GPT to solve problems," but many were unable to answer questions regarding time or space complexity or a description of the code they had just written.
The majority of applicants were "vibe coding," copying and pasting AI responses without understanding the underlying logic, the hiring team noted.
This has made it almost impossible to find candidates who actually know what they're writing, the post claims.
The business acknowledged that the entire experience has made it wonder how to improve its hiring practices moving ahead.
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