{"id":165570,"date":"2023-06-11T14:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meet-the-newest-employee-at-elon-musks-spacex-hes-14"},"modified":"2023-06-11T14:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T19:23:57","slug":"meet-the-newest-employee-at-elon-musks-spacex-hes-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/meet-the-newest-employee-at-elon-musks-spacex-hes-14","title":{"rendered":"Meet the newest employee at Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX. He\u2019s 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-newest-employee-at-elon-musks-spacex-hes-14.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest recruit at SpaceX is a software engineer who passed its \u201ctechnically challenging\u201d and \u201cfun\u201d interview process.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s different about Kairan Quazi is that he\u2019s just 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.insider.com\/?h=e79d2e74cd30da5dba1cd3681dd018bf1d06e7dc78dc5e18067734204fbe2731&postID=6484612c000a975c53796234&site=bi&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Ffeed%2Fupdate%2Furn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7072344099462254593%3FupdateEntityUrn%3Durn%253Ali%253Afs_feedUpdate%253A%2528V2%252Curn%253Ali%253Aactivity%253A7072344099462254593%2529&amazonTrackingID=null&platform=browser&sc=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\">LinkedIn post<\/a> on Thursday: \u201cI will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team. One of the rare companies that did not use my age as an arbitrary and outdated proxy for maturity and ability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest recruit at SpaceX is a software engineer who passed its \u201ctechnically challenging\u201d and \u201cfun\u201d interview process. What\u2019s different about Kairan Quazi is that he\u2019s just 14 years old. He said in a LinkedIn post on Thursday: \u201cI will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,38,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-engineering","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}