Don’t get me wrong- I have worked with some wonderful and talented people from India- forgive me if I made it sound like 100% of the degreed people from there are useless- that is absolutely not the case.
Just in the last 5 or 10 years- they churned out way to many unskilled, and I have worked with groups of them that clung to each other in a group, refused to share information, and churned out garbage code (like a high-schooler)
When you suddenly double or triple your output of engineers, you get more and more from the lower half of the bell-curve. And in a class full of morons, graded on a curve, even an idiot can get an A.
Thanks for the warning. Should I get into another ‘hiring authority’ situation, I’ll be sure to ask for coding demonstrations on a white board, and more ‘non-standard, hard-to-Google’ technical questions — which will be broad enough to avoid being too obscure, of course. I used to hate those too-obscure questions when I interviewed....lol