In this episode of the Leaders in Talent podcast, Adriaan Kolff sits down with Andy Mountney, VP of Talent Acquisition & People Operations at Elliptic. Andy founded a recruiting agency early in a 25-year career in talent, then led global talent acquisition at Atlassian, where the ask was to go from fighting to hire 300 people a quarter to delivering 1,000.

Today Andy runs a 10-person recruiting team at Elliptic with no coordinators, something he doesn't think could have worked two or three years ago. Yet he hasn't met a talent leader who has seen AI push productivity per recruiter through the roof: whole functions are getting smaller, the recruiter carrying the rec load simply does more things, and recruiter capacity is still capped by business and interviewer capacity. He also asks why Anthropic and OpenAI still appear to build their ...