India, Nov. 27 -- In a LinkedIn post, a tech recruiter shared why he chose to hire a candidate from a Tier 3 college instead of someone from IIT Delhi. He expressed that he doesn't care for JEE scores and is keen on knowing what they have "built, broken or fixed."

"I rejected an IIT Delhi grad today. And hired someone from a college you've never heard of," the recruiter wrote.

"The IIT grad had 1800+ LeetCode rating. Couldn't explain how his college project handled 100 concurrent users. The Tier 3 grad built a payment system processing 50K transactions. Deployed it. Scaled it. Broke it. Fixed it," he continued.

He added, "Your parents paid Rs.50L for coaching and IIT fees. His parents couldn't afford a laptop till 2nd year. Today, he g...