Elon Musk bans résumés and cover letters in hiring for his chip team. These are the 3 bullet points he’s looking for instead

It takes hours for some people to craft a résumé and cover letter, listing past experience and accomplishments on a sheet of paper—details your interviewer is likely to ask you to explain face-to-face anyway. That redundant, time-consuming process has forced many to ditch the career materials, and Elon Musk is leading the charge.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is now asking anyone who wants to join his AI5 chip design team to nix the conventional cover letter and résumé in favor of just three short bullet points. 

In a January X post Musk said he was looking for applicants to join Tesla as it restarts work on the AI supercomputer project Dojo3. To be considered, all applicants have to do is to submit “3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you’ve solved,” Musk wrote in the X post.

The move is characteristic of the CEO, who during his time at the helm of the Department of Government Efficiency, issued a directive asking government workers to email five bullet points of recent accomplishments amid a mass firing campaign that led to the termination of more than 250,000 federal employees. “Failure to respond........

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