I work at a mid-sized tech company based in the US. In 2023, they fired half our development team and replaced them with Indians in India. While hiring, they had candidates who were paying other people to do interviews for them, in one case one was hired and a completely different Indian woman from the one who was interviewed showed up. Fast forward a couple of years, the quality of the product is falling off a cliff. The Indians are completely incapable of even the most basic code implementations.
My team literally gives them the front-end code, and recently I discovered that instead of taking our front-end code, they've been taking screenshots of our UI and pasting them into Claude Code and having the AI recreate the UI from scratch. The problem is, we already wrote the code for the UI, all they had to do was copy it.
Now, they are essentially vibecoding the entire product and creating technical debt that will already take 6+ months to resolve. I had to train a "Senior Application Developer" how to resize a browser window, some of my Indian coworkers will seemingly take my messages in Teams, put them into Claude, and copy and paste the response back to me. Senior leadership is seemingly totally unaware of the state of what's happening, and continues to "laud" the "move to an offshore model" as a great success.