Goldman Got 315,000 Applications. AI Is How Finance Handles That Now.

Goldman Sachs received 315,126 internship applications in 2024 and hired 0.9% of them. That's not a volume problem — it's a precision problem. And finance and consulting firms are now using AI to solve it at scale. In this episode, we break down how Goldman, JPMorgan, Citibank, and top consulting firms are deploying AI screening — the real numbers behind the efficiency gains, and what the UK's ICO just warned about AI hiring tools that skip genuine human review. The firms winning in 2026 aren't choosing between speed and compliance. They're using structured AI audio screening with human oversight built in — and the gap between those firms and everyone else is starting to show in hiring quality metrics.