{"id":1312,"date":"2012-10-21T09:39:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T13:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2012-10-21T09:42:05","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T13:42:05","slug":"planetary-resources-interview-questions-sound-like-the-recipe-for-an-awesomely-nerdy-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/21\/planetary-resources-interview-questions-sound-like-the-recipe-for-an-awesomely-nerdy-lifestyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Have soldering iron and spatula, will travel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetaryresources.com\/careers\/\">careers page from Planetary Resources<\/a>, the asteroid mining company&#8230;<div style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption align right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/pri.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/medium-holder8.jpg\" width=\"257\" height=\"144\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hotlinked from Planetary Resources.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>If you can live up to these standards, you may very well be a great nerd and, possibly, a fantastic cook.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some questions that you may be asked during the application\/interview include:<\/p>\n<p>Are you a space nut? Prove it!<br \/>\nLook around your home. How would we know that you are an engineer?<br \/>\nWhat are your three favorite tools to get the job done? What makes them your favorites?<br \/>\nWhat do you want to get out of working for Planetary Resources?<br \/>\nWhat do you do for fun?<br \/>\nHave you seen a product through its full life cycle: design, analysis, fab, assembly, test, and ops?<br \/>\nHave you designed and built hardware that someone else has used?<br \/>\nHave you written code that someone else has used?<br \/>\nDo you know how to use a mill and a lathe?<br \/>\nCan you debug a PCB?<br \/>\nDoes a convoluted, system-level problem make you tingle with excitement?<br \/>\nDo you know how to create an interplanetary spacecraft trajectory to a celestial target?<br \/>\nAre you a mean cook?<br \/>\nCan you fix the heat if it breaks?<br \/>\nWe would recognize your handiwork on such space missions or product releases as\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nAre your soldering skills are best described as Cro-Magnon, Offensive, Survivable, Clean and Functional, Mil-spec compliant, or Angelic (cue choir sounds)?<br \/>\nHow would you feel about moving to the Seattle area?<br \/>\nAt Planetary Resources, we fail. A lot. In fact, we celebrate failure. Give us an example of one of your failures, how you fixed it, and what you learned from it.<br \/>\nWhat name would you give a crash test dummy, and why?<br \/>\nPaste a link to a picture that best describes you, but is not OF you.<br \/>\nIf you were asked to give a 20 minute presentation on a subject for which you consider yourself an expert, what would be the topic of the presentation?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have what it takes to mine asteroids? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gregs-reference","category-science-fandom","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-la","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}