Hiring Advice

Theory for excellence. "Excellence" is a surprisingly generalizable skill. People who've been great at *anything* are more likely to have the drive and self-discipline to excel even at something unrelated. In 2015, we hired a number of ex-Juilliard musicians with no engineering experience with the assumption that “people who know how to be meticul

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The biggest difference in how I’m hiring the second time around: Indexing heavily on people who really, really want to work at a high growth startup If a candidate is deciding between us and a comfortable job at a big tech company, it’s already not a fit

Elon Musk on remote work May 31, 2022