At the end of the Musk interview, the interviewer asked: What questions do you have? A student asked two questions and went home
Do you have any questions? This is a question that the interviewer often asks at the end of the interview.
But in Musk's company, when the interviewer asks you, "Do you have any questions?" "You have to be careful.
01 Interviewer: Do you have any questions?
As professionals, we have all been through many interviews and know that almost all companies will ask questions at the end of the interview out of courtesy. Interviewers also typically ask one or two inconsequential questions.
But for Musk's company, "Do you have any questions?" But it can be a "trap."
Once a graduate of a certain school wanted to enter the SpaceX internship, and he also passed the test smoothly in the interview, showing a good accumulation of technology.
Unfortunately, at the end of the interview, the interviewer asked him a question.
This student asked two very realistic questions: First, what is the average acceptance rate of intern interviews? The second is about the prospects for promotion within the company.
The interview situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the interviewer responded simply and perfunctorily, and then quickly concluded the interview.
As a result, he was rejected and had to go home!
The reason for the failure was his questioning, and the interviewer thought that his pattern was very limited.
Musk wants a group of talented, ambitious and brilliant engineers to follow him to change the world.
Musk's corporate culture is to expect interviewers to ask profound questions of level and depth, to expect them to issue sharp questions, to expect them to show their own enthusiasm and curiosity, but not to expect them to pay attention to trivial, "living at home" like trivialities.
Under such a corporate culture and vision, the questions of "interview and admission success rate" and "promotion prospects" will be the performance of no pattern.
02What kind of people does Musk need?
Musk wants to build a SpaceX "special forces."
On SpaceX's job page, there is a very striking sentence: "SpaceX is like a special forces force." We are doing tasks that others think are impossible. By any rational standard, our goals are wildly ambitious. But we will make them a reality. At SpaceX, we have the potential to have an incredible impact on the future of humanity and on life itself — Elon Musk. ”
Musk's "special forces" can only need A-level talents, and then attract new A-level talents or potential B-level talents through A and talents.
Although today's SpaceX and Tesla are no longer worried about recruiting people, in the early days of its founding, Musk's company was considered by many to be a ridiculous farce of Silicon Valley venture capital, and it certainly did not live long.
But Musk won't compromise.
Tesla and SpaceX, in the early days of their inception, insisted on the standard of recruiting A-level talents, and their strategy was: Musk personally recruited leaders, and then let leaders and HR - recruit other high-level talents.
In the first 6 years of SpaceX's existence, Musk was involved in the recruitment of every one of the company's first 1,000 employees, including cleaning aunts.
In order to recruit an employee restaurant waiter, HR had to follow Musk's idea, run a lot of McDonald's and Starbucks, find their "stars of the month", and then select MVPs from this pile of all-star waiters, and finally dig him up.
So, what does it feel like to have a bunch of MVPs in different fields working together?
There are often a large number of equally good people in the circle of friends of excellent talents, and as a result, almost all of Tesla's groups are members from Stanford University.
According to Jerry, who interned for six months in SpaceX's rocket launch division and then worked as a transmission systems engineer at Ford in North America, the people around him seemed to be geniuses, and when faced with a variety of difficult and complex information, they could quickly understand and find solutions to problems.
Jerry said: Young people who can directly enter Ford after graduation in the United States are often excellent students at prestigious schools such as the University of Michigan, but SpaceX attracts students from top schools such as MIT and Stanford University, and it is not their average graduate, it is a double degree, early graduation, outstanding students.
This elite gathering in the SpaceX office, full of brainstorming feelings, makes Jerry still unforgettable.
SpaceX's employee canteen
03 There is no decency, only to pass or leave?
In order to build SpaceX's "special forces", SpaceX HR often receives letters of complaint.
SpaceX HR is often complained about: an appointment for an interview but a default appointment, a lack of feedback on job seekers who have already been interviewed, an interruption of the interview process without warning...
But that's the culture of extreme utility that SpaceX pursues, where efficiency and results are placed ahead of the curve. This kind of work culture is manifested in the interview, that is, it does not care too much about the candidate's feelings.
SpaceX also has a very cruel rule: after each round of interviews, as long as any recruiter says no, HR will immediately ask the interviewer to go home without hesitation.
Under this approach, an inappropriate interviewee would not take up more of the spaceX employee's time costs.
Many decent Silicon Valley companies, such as Apple, Facebook, google, are very respectful of people, once the interview process is started, no matter what the process is, you will go through the entire process relatively completely, and finally politely sent away. Being walked away in the middle of an interview is almost non-recurring.
But at SpaceX, there's no gentlemanly demeanor, and every round of interviews is a "Win or Go home!" Pass or leave)! ”。
Plus, no matter how far you came from and attended multiple rounds of interviews, if SpaceX decides not to admit you, you won't even have a rejection email.
Even more cruel is that even though countless interviewers email to inquire about the interview process, Tesla or SpaceX's HR principle is: never return.
All in all, SpaceX is clearly more concerned about the company's own efficiency than the personal feelings of each interviewee.
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