Oh that's pretty funny because here it's fairly easy to spot incompetents or not... Here every big city has its own university, some are known to be tougher than others, it's common knowledge, so if you take degree here or there it changes a lot... Then inside the university you have the department, that's also an other story, every department has its own reputation too, let's see if you get a degree in politics science everyone knows you are a sheep, if you take it in phisics you are not

Friends/familiars of boss it's a common thing too, here the son of the boss is a total incompetent, even damaging, useless would have been better, but it's the son so untouchable