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I had many mediocre bosses, one was a PhD from Harvard.  He was perhaps the least interested boss I ever had, he didn't seem to care about anything.

Like most, I also had some hilariously terrible bosses.  I had two I consider "good", out of 20 something.

The truth of engineering schools is just like the truth of most colleges...

As a general rule, the higher rated schools can be more selective about their applicants, and thus get a higher caliber of student to start with. It's not that the quality of the education is necessarily better, or even different.

In fact, I had some times where I had professors who had written the textbook, and found that they were some of the worse professors because they [despite being engineers] thought they were superb authors and rather than teach what was in the textbook, they assumed you would understand it by virtue of exposure to their perfect writing. I had others who were worse because they were essentially research profs who picked up an undergrad class to teach because they kinda had to. I don't think either are nearly as common at "lower" schools, where they may be spending more time on actual instruction.

So yeah, someone who got good grades in high school, did really well on standardized tests, might get through Stanford without actually becoming all that good of an engineer.

The best boss I ever had never went to college but he was the smartest man I ever knew

He was a great manager and motivator