Very early in my career I worked for a dev shop that would literally hire 2-3 Indian teams to do the same project in the hopes one would turn out ok and it was

Very early in my career I worked for a dev shop that would literally hire 2-3 Indian teams to do the same project in the hopes one would turn out ok and it was still way cheaper than domestic labor. I was often brought in to fix bugs and performance problems. It was during this period I saw the worst code of my life: Pulling every record from a sql database table with a 'select * from table' then a strcmp on each numerical (and indexed) `id` field to find the record. It had worked in testing but blew up in production. It was truly unreal to see that. The other interesting thing I got to see was a shakedown of our company after we poached talent from a connected local company. We had the option (which we took) to pay several years worth of the average per capita income to local government henchmen to be allowed to stay in business.