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Bending Spoons only hired 0.04% from its 800,000 job applications last year—its CEO says its cutthroat hiring process is
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Bending Spoons received 800,000 job applications last year, and only hired 286 of the candidates.
Key facts
- And it equates to an acceptance rate of 0.04%—100 times more selective than Ivy League colleges, which typically let in around 4%
- Gecko Robotics, a Pittsburgh-based robotics business, received more than 40,000 applications for 32 internship roles in 2024
- And despite the rock-bottom acceptance rate, the $337 billion bank still took on a sizable number of young talent, hiring 2,500 interns across more than 500 universities
- Bending Spoons received 800,000 job applications last year, and only hired 286 of the candidates
Summary
Tens of thousands make it through the first round alone, and its CEO, Luca Ferrari, says the process ahead is unlike many other hiring playbooks. “If people looked under the hood at how we do this, they would think we’re crazy,” Ferrari recently told the WSJ. The 60,000 candidates who made it through the first round of screening sat through tests that analyzed their reasoning, judgement, and learning speed. “A run-of-the-mill interview is almost entirely non-predictive, like tossing a coin,” Ferrari told the WSJ.