My take is that there's a personality type that sees Elon hyping up the "hardcore-ness" and WANTS to get in. Remember that some people willingly put themselves

My take is that there's a personality type that sees Elon hyping up the "hardcore-ness" and WANTS to get in. Remember that some people willingly put themselves through extremely situations - obsctacle races, bootcamps, etc. 80hrs/week doesn't bother them. Work-life balance isn't something they care about. The David Goggins types. Elon has built his career seeking out such people. Couple all of this "hardcore" talk with some elaborate BS about "Twitter's mission" (and he IS an excellent hype man) and I can totally see certain type of engineers jumping through hoops just to get in.