Is your issue just with the amount ($9) being paid?
To be clear, we paid $120-150 per developer and L&TI paid them nothing. You’d see .NET code with a single class that has a few thousand lines of code, no concept of unit tests, integration tests, manual or automated acceptance tests, usability tests, etc.
Shelf life of most of this garbage was a few months if something ever did get delivered. This went on for years.
The whole industry is corrupt.
Of course generally the reason people go along with the BS is that either they're incompetent or mediocre and BS suits them just fine, or they've given up and are just happy to be swept along and collect a paycheck.
>You’d see .NET code with a single class that has a few thousand lines of cod
If we are blaming entire nationalities, I have seen code written by an American. His idea of refactoring was copy paste the function, append a '2' to the function name and use it. There were at least a 50-100 functions like this in the project that had like 30-50 source files.
I have one person in our Mumbai office out of a 8 person team I manage. He had been absolutely fantastic with the work he does.
As an extreme example, one ex-employee stopped working one day because his wireless keyboard did not have batteries (a kB connected to his work MacBook Pro). Colleagues told him to just buy some AA batteries while I was back (I would have refunded them to him) and he did not want to do it.
Nowadays if I see HCL or Tata in resumes here in GDL, it is an automatic pass.