Most of them are recent high school and college dropouts. What did you expect them to know?
They learned programming by reading blogs and pirated PDF files on BitTorrent. Of course they don't got a level of understanding most hackers here have.
You want a good programmer you need 15+ years of experience plus a good understanding of computer science, recent high school and college dropouts don't have that.
You hire a cheaper labor source, you won't get that level of quality a more expensive labor source will give you and you get what you pay for!