Tech IndustryNov 17, 2023
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Undergraduate degrees of big tech CEOs

Apple: industrial engineering Microsoft: electrical engineering Google: metallurgical engineering Amazon: government NVIDIA: electrical engineering Meta: no degree Tesla: physics TSMC: electrical engineering Broadcom: mechanical engineering Samsung: control & measurement engineering Oracle: business Adobe: electronics & communications engineering ByteDance: software engineering Salesforce: business administration Netflix: physics & astronomy AMD: electrical engineering Cisco: mathematics Intel: electrical engineering Intuit: electrical engineering Tata Consultancy Services: electrical engineering Qualcomm: electrical engineering Texas Instruments: electrical engineering SpaceX: physics IBM: electrical engineering Siemens: quantum chromodynamics Applied Materials: engineering management Uber: electrical and electronics engineering Lockheed Martin: engineering Intuitive Surgical: (general) engineering Shopify: no degree Micron: EECS OpenAI (interim CEO): mechanical engineering Stripe: no degree Roblox: engineering Bloomberg: electrical engineering

Lacework 42dimsum Nov 17, 2023

People didn’t really study CS back in the day

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dogfoodie Nov 17, 2023

ECE was the highly respected major.

Lacework 42dimsum Nov 17, 2023

still is

Coinbase icespice Nov 17, 2023

Maybe this is why Amazon is on the decline right now

Microsoft chadmaxxx Nov 17, 2023

Wasn't Bezos working in a hedge fund before starting amazon?

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Anonwizard Nov 17, 2023

His degree is also in EECS

Cox Automotive 🏎 ⚡️ Nov 19, 2023

Double E’s ftw 🙌