[BurningFrog]

Elon is deeply involved in engineering decisions in his companies, and has by all accounts deep knowledge in those areas.

And yet randos on the web keep asserting he's not an engineer. Is there any factual basis for this? Is it just that he doesn't have a degree with that word in the title?

[michaelmrose]

Being an engineer is neither having a degree in engineering which he doesn't have nor managing them and it certainly isn't owning a company that employs them. It's working as an engineer.

He continually says dumb things that aren't true or reasonable and has never worked in the field he's a rich boy who bought things with daddy's aparteid money.

[WarmWash]

He has a physics degree instead of an engineering degree.

I suppose most people don't know that physics degrees are largely accepted as engineering degrees.