India, Nov. 16 -- A routine request for a coffee machine turned into an online debate after a Noida CEO made a surprising comparison between the cost of a coffee machine and hiring two interns.

An employee who works at an IT service company in Noida shared in a Reddit post an experience involving a group of newly joined interns.

"CEO purchases interns instead of coffee machine" the caption of the post reads.

According to the post, the interns came from "low-level Tier-1 and good Tier-2 colleges" and had recently started their training at the organisation.

As they settled in, the interns asked the CEO about installing a coffee machine in the office. What followed was a response that stunned the team and later caught the attention of us...