I've seen the same thing. If I didn't know better, I would say they have 1 or two guys in a large group that are talented and helps the tens of hundreds of peop

I've seen the same thing. If I didn't know better, I would say they have 1 or two guys in a large group that are talented and helps the tens of hundreds of people who are unqualified. That works ok for a while, but doesn't scale well, and you end up getting code written by unqualified people and the 1 or 2 good people don't have the time to check everyone's code and a lot of stuff falls through the cracks. FWIW I worked with an eastern bloc country team (Europe) and it was top notch.