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Bending Spoons hires 0.04% of 800K applicants with AI-assisted process

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Bending Spoons, a tech company valued at $21 billion, has implemented an extremely selective hiring process, accepting only 0.04% of the 800,000 applications received last year. CEO Luca Ferrari described the process as unconventional, involving reasoning, judgment, and learning speed tests, followed by algorithmic analysis and traditional interviews, which he deems largely ineffective. This rigorous approach results in an acceptance rate significantly lower than that of Ivy League universities, reflecting a broader trend of increased competition for jobs, partly influenced by AI automation and economic uncertainty. AI

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Bending Spoons hires 0.04% of 800K applicants with AI-assisted process

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Emma Burleigh ·

    Bending Spoons only hired 0.04% from its 800,000 job applications last year—its CEO says its cutthroat hiring process is unlike ‘useless’ interviews

    The $21 billion company behind Eventbrite, Vimeo, and AOL has just revealed how it picked 286 out of 800,000 job applications.

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