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by ameister14 4825 days ago
You need to have someone edit your copy. 'Your Motivation Statement' is a huge jumble. I know you're excited but calmly examine why you want to work for SpaceX and then, when you're done, get someone good at editing to read it through for you and rip it apart.

This is a first draft, that's why he said it was half-assed.

Your final version shouldn't have any obvious mistakes at all. You're applying to work for a SPACESHIP company. Details are incredibly important.

example: "Each section of this website will start with a TL;DR to summarize the content of that page. Fell free to have a look around!"

TL;FR, Fell, and !. You're writing something that should actually be fairly formal. Don't use exclamation points. Fell is a typo. There should be no spelling errors or typos. TL;DR was covered.

Not trying to break you down, just trying to tell you this shit really matters.

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You're absolutely right. Don't worrying, you're not breaking me down, it's all valid and solid advice. Sounds like I got too excited in both my motivation statement and posting the site. I've diabled the site, but hopefully I can take all the comments here and post a nearly final version.