Same here. Some imports were very good, but we also had a woman from China with a Masters in CS that couldn’t make her own lunch. She needed help on every project, and invariably you ended up doing 90% of it yourself.
Gents, did these folks get their masters in their respective home countries or here in the U.S.?
Over the past ten or so years, I've discovered that a lot of U.S. universities are advanced degree diploma mills for foreigners. They're matched up with a U.S. student and they sign on to the American's doctoral thesis's, and piggy-back to their degree.
I've worked with two East African "PhD"s, who literally should have been scratching around the dirt for insects to eat, but instead were making six figures (for filling a quota) and one from China who'd be more effective if he had a giant off switch on his back to keep him out of the way.