[Outpox]

> Of course this is typical for engineers and Elon is an engineer.

He's not! This was discussed in the article comments and according to Wikipedia he have a BS in physics and another in economics. He started a PhD but quickly stopped.

[greglindahl]

I know a lot of people in Silicon Valley who are called engineers and only have a physics background. They aren't certified professional engineers in the disciplines that have licensing, like civil engineers, but they're still engineers.

[JoeAltmaier]

Used to be, a large segment of Silicon Valley 'engineers' were trained in music. Some weird overlap that worked early on, at least until the market got flooded with trained software types.

[JoeAltmaier]

He is. He's been performing as an Engineer for a decade. Which makes him one. Regardless of his early certification/degree.

[notlob]

He manages engineers, and he would seem to be quite effective at it (a rarity!), but being a highly technical manager isn’t the same as performing engineering work. Do you have a specific example in mind?

[JoeAltmaier]

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-schedules-a-typ...

[notlob]

That link doesn’t address my question. It says he works at SpaceX and he works at Tesla, not the nature of the work.