It's funny how little organizational power structures change: I only had two horrible bosses to be honest, so I consider myself lucky. One was at my first job

It's funny how little organizational power structures change: I only had two horrible bosses to be honest, so I consider myself lucky. One was at my first job out of school, the other a few jobs later. Fist one basically stripped me of my confidence in my coding ability - I could build complex algorithms easily. She just didn't understand minor complexities and made me use more, simple algos and over document. Later on another project, we were always behind schedule, just one fire away from the project collapsing. When we got a new boss, we were able to complete features easily, not because there were less features, but she could actually convey requirements. At my later job, the boss didn't care about code quality, just that PBI's were moving through. Single mistakes brought down the entire app. We never did root cause analysis, just patched symptoms. Thankfully a boss that came in later was way better, he actually pushed quality.