Elon Musk is an entrepreneur who became known for being the founder, executive director and technical director of SpaceX, a private company that offers services space. If you dream of working within this company or others of the tycoon, we'll help you understand how Musk's selection works so that you can make his dream come true.
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Elon Musk and the selection of new employees
The businessman is well known for his interviews to hire new employees. Among all these processes, the selection of new employees for SpaceX is gaining a lot of repercussions. Musk seeks to hire people capable of solving situations or issues that, many times, have never been seen before.
In this way, he always asks candidates about the problems they have already faced and how they solved them. In addition, in some interviews to hire new heads for his team, Musk tends to ask a question with the aim of disorienting candidates and analyzing how they act under pressure.
One of the questions is as follows: “Imagine that you are standing on the earth's surface and decide to walk one mile to the south, one mile to the west and one mile to the south. When you stop, you realize that you are in the same place where you started. Where on Earth are you?”
Most respond at first: “North Pole”. Then Musk asks the candidate: “Where else could you be?”. This is the answer that will make all the difference in your job interview. The correct one would be: "any point one mile north of a circle whose circumference is (1/n) miles for all n". If you answered "South Pole" right off the bat, your answer would suit Musk, as that's where the earth is one mile in circumference.
Answering this question correctly, showing that you master problem solving methods questions and also displaying a good curriculum, would have great chances of being hired by the tycoon.
