India, June 22 -- A senior engineer at a "MAANG-tier" company has sparked debate online after claiming that many fresh graduates joining top tech firms lack even basic computer science knowledge, despite having high academic scores.

In a Reddit post titled "New Grads are doomed (not all though) This is not looking good", the engineer said they had recently been assigned to mentor interns from the Class of 2027 and full-time hires from the Class of 2026. They said that the issue surfaced while reviewing Java code written by interns.

"As a Senior Engineer, I was assigned to mentor a few interns on a project. Recently, we ran into a system issue: their Java code was improperly managing memory," the user wrote.

What surprised the engineer ...