{"id":20940,"date":"2026-07-13T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=20940"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:28:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:28:32","slug":"getting-hired-at-this-company-is-harder-than-getting-into-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/getting-hired-at-this-company-is-harder-than-getting-into-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Hired at this Company Is Harder Than Getting Into Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bending Spoons, the Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/starting-a-business\/3-steps-to-building-a-tech-startup-without-any-outside-money\/440345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/bending-spoons-jobs-hiring-stock-eaed2b8e?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal.<\/a> The company went public last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Milan-based company specializes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/encyclopedia\/acquisition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquiring<\/a> and overhauling companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/aol-is-ending-dial-up-internet-service\/495732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<p>\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<p>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<p>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<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Bending Spoons, the Italian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/starting-a-business\/3-steps-to-building-a-tech-startup-without-any-outside-money\/440345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/bending-spoons-jobs-hiring-stock-eaed2b8e?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal.<\/a> The company went public last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Milan-based company specializes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/encyclopedia\/acquisition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acquiring<\/a> and overhauling companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/aol-is-ending-dial-up-internet-service\/495732\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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<p>\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<p>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<p>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<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/getting-hired-at-this-company-is-harder-than-getting-into-harvard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bending Spoons, the Italian tech startup, 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. The company went public last week. The Milan-based company specializes in acquiring and overhauling companies like AOL, Vimeo and Evernote that have dated software people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/getting-hired-company-0726_g2272886809.jpg?resize=1024,683","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20942,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions\/20942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}