Elon Musk Is Hiring for Tesla and Doesn't Care If Applicants Never Finished High School
“A PhD is definitely not required.”
In reply to a follower’s Tweet, Elon Musk recently stated that not having a college degree won’t hold you back from working at Tesla. Musk is looking to recruit workers for Tesla’s artificial intelligence team via Twitter, stating “Join AI at Tesla!” before mentioning the artificial intelligence team “reports directly to me [and] we meet/email/text almost every day.”
He continued by saying “a PhD is definitely not required,” in response to someone’s tongue-in-cheek reply. I “don’t care if you even graduated high school,” Musk continued. Tesla’s position in its artificial intelligence department does not require any specific degree, as Musk intends to fins those with a “deep understanding” of artificial intelligence no matter the background.
In a 2014 interview with the German automotive publication Auto Bild, Musk let his hiring process be known. “There’s no need even to have a college degree at all, or even high school.” Instead, he looks for “evidence of exceptional ability. And if there is a track record of exceptional achievement, then it is likely that that will continue into the future.”
Although “[e]ducational background is irrelevant,” all candidates “must pass hardcore coding test,” Musk said in the following Tweet.
In other tech news, Amazon is back in the $1 trillion USD club following its Q4 2019 earnings report.
Tesla will soon have over a million connected vehicles worldwide with sensors & compute needed for full self-driving, which is orders of magnitude more than everyone else combined, giving you the best possible dataset to work with
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020
A PhD is definitely not required. All that matters is a deep understanding of AI & ability to implement NNs in a way that is actually useful (latter point is what’s truly hard). Don’t care if you even graduated high school.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020
Dojo, our training supercomputer, will be able to process vast amounts of video training data & efficiently run hypersparce arrays with a vast number of parameters, plenty of memory & ultra-high bandwidth between cores. More on this later.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020
Our NN is initially in Python for rapid iteration, then converted to C++/C/raw metal driver code for speed (important!). Also, tons of C++/C engineers needed for vehicle control & entire rest of car. Educational background is irrelevant, but all must pass hardcore coding test.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 3, 2020
