I've had similar experiences. The outsourced engineers work locally when they graduate from college (or sometimes, "coding bootcamp") until they get good experi

I've had similar experiences. The outsourced engineers work locally when they graduate from college (or sometimes, "coding bootcamp") until they get good experience and can match it with engineers in higher wage countries. Then they leave their home countries for the higher wages overseas. The standards of education are often lower in lower wage countries. Sometimes it'll be full college, often people will just complete a coding bootcamp then call themselves a software engineer. In other words, you get what you pay for.