India, July 27 -- A Chennai-based startup founder has sparked a discussion on LinkedIn after revealing that none of the candidates who interviewed for an internship role at his company has been selected despite receiving nearly 1,300 applications.

Taking to LinkedIn, Ramesh Ravishankar, co-founder and chief go-to-market officer at Highperformr.ai, shared that his firm received 1,290 applications for internship openings last month. However, only a small fraction of applicants progressed through the hiring pipeline.

"1,290 applications. 83 attempted the assessment. 23 cleared it. 10 moved to interviews. 0 cleared interviews so far," he wrote.

"Read that again. 1,290 people raised their hand. 83 actually showed up when it was time to do t...