Applicants must be U.S. citizens and are not permitted to work from home. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has appealed to “competent” and “caring” people to join the cost-cutting team. “The DOGE Team is looking for world-class talent to work long hours identifying/eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse,” DOGE’s post on X (formerly Twitter) said. “These are full-time, salaried positions for software engineers, InfoSec engineers, financial analysts, HR professionals, and, in general, all competent/caring people.”.
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Applicants must be U.S. citizens, are not permitted to work from home, and must be located, or be willing to relocate to, Washington, D.C. “It would be far more efficient to allow telecommute or remote work,” someone replied on X. “Sorry, love the DOGE goal, but I am not moving to DC,” another person said.
“Only hiring people willing to work in DC goes against the essence of DOGE,” someone else added. In November, DOGE said it needed “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” willing to work “80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.”.
“It’s extremely immature looking. It’s a landing page and it’s not even a good one,” one person said. “It’s literally an HTML page reminiscent of the late 1990’s or early 2000’s. Why put a website up at all if it’s not developed?”.
“Ironically this is the group that is going to modernize and apply tech to the govt,” another said. Musk’s former DOGE partner Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur turned failed presidential candidate, has already bowed out of co-chairing the department.
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