India, March 25 -- A Reddit user has claimed that a recruiter accidentally sent him her "secret internal selection guidelines" that go into great detail 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 and certain backgrounds.

It states 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...