Elon Musk's Brilliant Hiring Strategy Uses The '2 Hands Test'--Instead of Degrees How Tesla and SpaceX discover top talent through this expertly-engineered process Elon Musk famously discredits traditional education as means to fielding and finding top talent, , saying that 'college is basically for fun and not for learning.' And while businesses across the nation rely on degrees as a tool for finding talent, Musk holds his conviction that skills matter more than degrees. In doing so, his companies, Tesla and SpaceX, attract and retain some of the brightest minds of our time from across the globe-no degree required. But the hiring process does require two things, which comes down to one thing: the 'Two Hands Test.' What the 'Two Hands Test' does is field candidates without traditional gatekeepers like degrees. Instead, it qualifies candidates through first-hand experience and hands-on expertise testing. It's brilliantly simple that, like any ...