Companies like Coinbase, ElevenLabs, and Ramp receive so many job applicants, their hiring rate makes Harvard look like a safety school. Hiring pros dish on how to beat the bots, survive the hiring gauntlet, and stand out from the massive crowd. On December 1, podcaster and venture capitalist Harry Stebbings posted on LinkedIn that candidates were 200 times more likely to get into Harvard University than they were to get a job at the $6.6 billion valuation AI startup ElevenLabs. According to his statistic, out of 180,000 applicants in the first half of the year, only 0.018% were hired by the AI voice agent platform.