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Fortune
Emma Burleigh

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

Job interview in office (Credit: filadendron / Getty Images)

Bending Spoons received 800,000 job applications last year, and only hired 286 of the candidates. And the $21 billion company—which owns digital businesses including Eventbrite, Vimeo, and AOL—says competition has only been ramping up in recent years.

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.

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