Engineering the Hire: How Airbnb, Meta, and Duolingo Treat Talent Acquisition Like a Product (2026 Use-Cases)
Four major tech companies — Airbnb, Meta, Duolingo, and Catawiki — are applying engineering and data-science principles to hiring. With applications per hire reaching 291 in Q1 2026 and only 2% of applicants invited to interview, treating the recruiting funnel as a product pipeline is no longer opt…