Jaguar Land Rover

You're Hired! Gorillaz App Code-Cracker Lands a Job

GAYDON, England, September 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

• Global recruitment campaign proves successful as Jaguar Land Rover hires first engineer
• Jaguar Land Rover has interviewed over 50 code-crackers to date and offered positions to 13 people in total.
• Coding challenge remains open as Jaguar Land Rover continues global search for the next generation of electronic and software engineers
• Pop-up Gorillaz garage to appear at Jaguar Land Rover's inaugural Tech Fest event in London  
• Fans can visit guitarist Noodle's garage to take part in a live technical challenge
• 'Technology with Heart'-themed Tech Fest explores the positive role technology is playing in reshaping the automotive industry and beyond
• Festival open from 8-10 September at Central Saint Martins art, design and technology college in London: find out more at http://www.jaguarlandrover.com
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Jaguar Land Rover has hired the first of the next generation of electronics and software engineering geniuses following the recent code-breaking recruitment challenge within the Gorillaz app.

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Daniel Dunkley, a 23-year-old from Gloucester, UK, is the first successful code-breaker to join Jaguar Land Rover. Daniel left school at 16 and was working as a controls engineer at a local quarry. His coding and software skills are completely self-taught from an early interest in playing computer games at home with his older brother. He starts work on 2 October as a software engineer at Jaguar Land Rover in Gaydon, Warwickshire.

Gorillaz and Jaguar Land Rover will continue the search for world-class talent at Jaguar Land Rover's inaugural Tech Fest event, from 8-10 September at London's Central Saint Martins art, design and technology college.

Fans interested in a job at Jaguar Land Rover can visit a pop-up Gorillaz garage to try a puzzle testing technical ability, logical thinking and memory. Want to see if you've got what it takes? Solve the puzzle and you'll skip the initial screening of the Jaguar Land Rover recruitment process.

If you can't make it to Tech Fest, complete the coding challenge on the Gorillaz app and go straight to interview. The code-breaking puzzle tests real-world skills the new generation of software and engineering talent must have. The challenge remains open worldwide.