India, June 15 -- A tech company claimed its recent interview drive for a single vacancy produced disappointing results. As per the post, 12,000 people applied for the position, among which 450 were interviewed. However, the company says it didn't end up hiring a single candidate as an alarming number of applicants for the junior developer role relied heavily on AI tools for coding without grasping the logic behind their work.

"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," read a part of the Reddit post.

"A lot of candidates are vibe coding essentially copy-pasting code from AI without understanding...