She might have a technical degree, but they didn't take she from layout out a circuit board (or whatever) and make her CEO. She has been working her way up the management chain for at least 15 years. She has been successful in all that effort, and so she was rewarded with more responsibility, a task she has rising to.
When you look at successful CEOs in general, they are mostly promoted from within, after working their way up the ranks. That she has only been at AMD for a couple years total and seems to be doing well is more surprising than that she has a technical degree: technical degrees imply enough intelligence to figure out how to do management tasks if you want to take that route.
When you look at successful CEOs in general, they are mostly promoted from within, after working their way up the ranks. That she has only been at AMD for a couple years total and seems to be doing well is more surprising than that she has a technical degree: technical degrees imply enough intelligence to figure out how to do management tasks if you want to take that route.