Elon Musk flies to Germany to interview Giga Berlin engineers (25 Guns) himself

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has just announced on Twitter that he is now in Germany in order to interview Giga Berlin engineers himself.

According to Musk’s following tweet, he will be conducting interviews tomorrow and if you’re a building construction, automotive, or manufacturing engineer who can reach Berlin in time you should send your resume to 25Guns@Tesla.com.

Recruiting ace engineers for Giga Berlin! Will interview in person tomorrow on site. Send resume to 25Guns@Tesla.com.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 5, 2020

As we all know Elon Musk is a fan of easter eggs, this email address might just be a temporary one for tomorrows hiring and worth decoding. The term ’25 Guns’ in this recruitment email address might be a reference to 25 top-notch German/European engineers that Tesla is actually seeking.

Elon Musk further updated this tweet with the criteria he expects in a resume. He wants to hire real problem solvers with a high sense of urgency.

When sending your resume, please describe a few of the hardest problems you solved & exactly how you solved them
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2020

Just looking for problem-solvers who get things done with a high sense of urgency. Don’t care if or where they went to school.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 6, 2020

Update:

In a LinkedIn post, Tesla Giga Berlin’s Infrastructure Lead for Engineering, Procurement, and Construction Muthu S further unraveled the mystery behind Tesla’s 25 Guns, he stated the following in his post:

At Giga Berlin, we’re planning to kick off a special, 25-person engineering task force that will be deployed wherever the toughest problems are, reporting directly to Elon.
Only requirements are:
1. Proof of demonstrated, exceptional engineering talent
2. Being a great problem-solver / having an unconventional approach to problem-solving
3. Energized to make amazing things happen
If this is you, email your resume & list of exceptional engineering accomplishments to 25guns@tesla.com

Interview Questions

Elon Musk is also known for asking super-hard questions in his interviews — and it is believed that he conducts almost all the final engineer interviews himself.

Rumor is that the following question is one of his favorites when he’s judging the next Tesla engineer’s intelligence, analytical, and problem-solving skills, he asks:

“You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?”
A possible Elon Musk interview question.

Some possible answers

(The walking West or East will be a circle of circumference 1 mile or 1/n miles where n is an integer)
— Nikola Tesla’s Ghost 👻 (@Nikola_Truth) November 3, 2020

Nope, you need to walk 1 mile South first and on South Pole you can do that only if you stand at least 1 mile North of South Pole. This will give you more then 1 mile circumferance for E-W walk.
— Iam Meadows (@IamMeadows) November 3, 2020

CNBC took this question to the streets of Manhattan, NYC, and received interesting replies from random people. All of these people are not engineers but still, there is no harm in trying to find a better answer.

Featured Image: Tobias Lindh / Twitter

Interview Questions

Some possible answers

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By Iqtidar Ali