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What kind of engineering work? That's a really broad category.
Like, are we talking aerospace engineering? Software engineering? Systems engineering?
I don't think the interviews angle means anything. Just because he was able to convince a journalist he knew the right words doesn't mean that he was actually contributing to the actual engineering of the rockets. If he spent 20 hours a week in engineering meetings, he might have absorbed enough to talk intelligently about it.
I also wouldn't give much credit to employees saying that he did engineering work. This is the same guy who bought the title of "founder" when he bought Tesla, and loves using NDAs to muzzle people.
I'm not saying I have doubts about his actual engineering because I think he's an asshole so he must be an idiot. I'm saying it because I've never heard him say anything technical that wasn't basically Star Trek technobabble, and at the same time I have seen him do a lot of shady things to make it seem like he's more involved than he is.