{"id":938007,"date":"2026-07-16T03:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938007\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:47:37","slug":"getting-hired-at-this-company-is-harder-than-getting-into-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/938007\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Hired at this Company Is Harder Than Getting Into Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bending Spoons, the Italian tech startup<\/a>, rejects 99.9% of its applicants. That makes it harder to get into than Harvard or NASA\u2019s astronaut program, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/a> The company went public last week.<\/p>\n

The Milan-based company specializes in acquiring<\/a> and overhauling companies like AOL<\/a>, Vimeo and Evernote that have dated software people continue to use. But its real talent is in vetting its employees through a rigorous screening process.<\/p>\n

\u201cA run-of-the-mill interview is almost entirely non-predictive, like tossing a coin,\u201d CEO Luca Ferrari told the Journal . \u201cIt\u2019s basically completely useless.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, candidates take reasoning and judgment tests before anyone interviews them, and a dedicated team of data scientists grades every answer against a hiring algorithm that tracks performance for years after the offer. Even politeness gets scored.<\/p>\n

Ferrari co-founded the company in 2013 after his first startup failed and he liquidated it for $40,000. Asked if he\u2019d pass his own hiring test today, he says probably not. <\/p>\n

Bending Spoons, the Italian tech startup<\/a>, rejects 99.9% of its applicants. That makes it harder to get into than Harvard or NASA\u2019s astronaut program, according to the Wall Street Journal.<\/a> The company went public last week.<\/p>\n

The Milan-based company specializes in acquiring<\/a> and overhauling companies like AOL<\/a>, Vimeo and Evernote that have dated software people continue to use. But its real talent is in vetting its employees through a rigorous screening process.<\/p>\n

\u201cA run-of-the-mill interview is almost entirely non-predictive, like tossing a coin,\u201d CEO Luca Ferrari told the Journal . \u201cIt\u2019s basically completely useless.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, candidates take reasoning and judgment tests before anyone interviews them, and a dedicated team of data scientists grades every answer against a hiring algorithm that tracks performance for years after the offer. Even politeness gets scored.<\/p>\n

Ferrari co-founded the company in 2013 after his first startup failed and he liquidated it for $40,000. Asked if he\u2019d pass his own hiring test today, he says probably not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bending Spoons, the Italian tech startup, rejects 99.9% of its applicants. That makes it harder to get into…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":938008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,9604,607,7414,420,3457,83846,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-938007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-hiring","tag-jobs","tag-leadership","tag-news-and-trends","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116927610687390209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/938008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}