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Want to Work at Tesla? Elon Musk Just Tweeted He Doesn’t Care if You Even Graduated High School—

Musk doesn’t care whether applicants have a college degree. He doesn’t even care whether they graduated high school. Candidates will have to demonstrate an ability to code. They will have to demonstrate knowledge. But the educational background is irrelevant.

In short, what you know — not how you learned it — is what truly matters.

“When you look at people who don’t go to school and make their way in the world, those are exceptional human beings. And we should do everything we can to find those people,” Bock said.

Many businesses “require” a college degree; at Google, the word “college” isn’t even its official guide to hiring. With the rise of self-paced college courses and vocational learning, plenty of driven people can teach themselves all the necessary skills to work at the company.

– Former Google HR Chief Lazlo Bock