{"id":16874,"date":"2026-07-25T20:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T03:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16874"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:00:58","slug":"musk-bans-resumes-asks-for-3-bullet-points-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16874","title":{"rendered":"Musk bans resumes &#8211; asks for 3 bullet points instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Resumes are becoming increasingly useless in the AI era. For top positions in his new chip design team, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/article\/why-elon-musk-bans-resume-cover-letter-hiring\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/article\/why-elon-musk-bans-resume-cover-letter-hiring\/\">Musk now asks for something else<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Write 3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you\u2019ve solved<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like this approach. It cuts to the chase and really requires you to distill all those desperate skills you have into how you solved real problems. A resume is still required to apply for most other jobs at Tesla in the U.S.\u2014with some positions even calling for an \u201cevidence of excellence\u201d. But Musk\u2019s unconventional request follows a growing trend in skills-based hiring. Almost three-quarters of companies\u00a0are using\u00a0skills-based assessments during the hiring process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resumes are becoming increasingly useless in the AI era. For top positions in his new chip design team, Musk now asks for something else: Write 3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you\u2019ve solved I like this approach. It cuts to the chase and really requires you to distill all those desperate skills you have into how you solved real problems. A resume is still required to apply for most other jobs at Tesla in the U.S.\u2014with some positions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16874\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4oa","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16875,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16874\/revisions\/16875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}