New Delhi: In a shocking turn of events a Reddit user claimed that a recruiter accidentally sent them a secret internal selection guidelines document outlining detailed criteria for evaluating candidates. The leaked internal memo has now sparked controversy online exposing selective hiring practices for software engineers. The memo surfaced on Reddit two days ago. It outlined stringent preferences favouring graduates from elite universities while explicitly rejecting candidates from major tech firms and certain backgrounds. The memo also states that the 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. Here are some of the key details: The memo was surfaced on Reddit two days ago. It outlined stringent preferences favouring graduates from elite universities while explicitly rejecting candidates from major tech firms and certain backgrounds. The memo states that the 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. 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. The memo included a blacklist of employees from major companies stating: Candidates who have ever worked at the following companies are not the right fit. The list included Intel Cisco HP TCS Tata Mahindra Infosys Capgemini Dell Cognizant and Wipro. The memo also made it clear that there would be absolutely no visa sponsorships restricting applications to U.S. citizens permanent residents and Canadians. He wrote the sheer pretentiousness and elitism kinda pissed me off ngl. And Im someone who meets a lot of this criteria which is why the recruiter contacted me but it still pisses me off.