Elon Musk claims he always asks same job interview question to catch out liars

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Elon Musk has some peculiar business ideas and many stem from a common question he always asks any interview candidate to see if they're lying or not.

The billionaire Tesla CEO knows what he's doing when it comes to business but says he is not interested in which school a prospective employee attended or even their level of education.“There’s no need even to have a college degree at all, or even high school," Musk said during a 2014 interview with Auto Bild.READ MORE: Elon Musk's 'creepy' Optimus robot will be 'worth more' than Tesla and do your shoppingInstead, the father-of-seven looks for "evidence of exceptional ability" when it comes to hiring new staff."If there’s a track record of exceptional achievement, then it’s likely that that will continue into the future," he said.Of course, it's easy for someone to lie on their CV or about their achievements, but Musk has a question that is designed to catch liars out.Speaking at the World Government Summit in 2017, Musk admitted he asks each candidate he interviews the same question: "Tell me about some of the most difficult problems you worked on and how you solved them."A study published in the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition in December 2020 uncovered several approaches to spotting liars based on a job interviewing technique that actually backs up Musk's technique.One such method is called “Asymmetric Information Management” (AIM) and is designed to provide an interviewee with a clear means to demonstrate their innocence or guilt to the investigator by providing detailed information."Small details are the lifeblood of forensic investigations and can provide investigators with facts to check and witnesses to question,” Cody Porter, one of the study’s.