My old school electronics company has gone through some recent EE grads. One of them is very sharp and definitely could have done the grind even 20 years ago.

My old school electronics company has gone through some recent EE grads. One of them is very sharp and definitely could have done the grind even 20 years ago. The other three I have absolutely no idea how they passed those classes. They aren't engineers either, they are technicians doing low level work. All three also completely whiffed to a worrying degree when given a basic assignment to see how well they knew electronics (the one who is an engineer smashed his assignment no problem.)