Where I live the organized thieves (as opposed to the local drunks) disassemble the bike and get rid of the frame ASAP. Same with cars, they park them in large car parks with no monitoring to see if it had a tracker, after a couple weeks they drive it off to disassemble (with fake plates to avoid ANPR)
I changed nothing, apart from eating less and not drinking anything but water. It was about the easiest thing I did and it has been quite effective for the past couple years.
Body/team leasing is nearly always shit quality, doesn't matter if it's from India or not. You can try to pay folk in India much less than you can get away with in e.g. Europe though.
I've had some good experience hiring contractors. It all depends on what the goal is. If the goal is high quality work there are shops for that and if the goal is for a big enterprise to manage costs and de-risk themselves by hiring contractors as easy-to-let-go resources, you get exactly that. I've dealt with both and the latter is just extremely frustrating made infinitely worse by dealing with the timezone.
If you've seen job placements in top tier colleges in India, it's obvious that none of the body shops ever get even a small percentage of graduates wanting to join. They're always the last choice even for the less academically inclined. It has been the case since at least 2005. Until then these companies still had some sway and were hiring some good candidates. Now they're coasting on their "account winning" architects who then transfer all day-to-day stuff to some of the most tough to deal with engineers.
I don't support the idea the guy was spouting, but there is an interesting article about "Jewish problems", which were questions asked to undesirable (including Jewish) candidates at universities in the Soviet Union (in this case Moscow State University after 6 days' war) - PDF warning:
VAT is not the only tax you pay. In Poland, depending on the kind of business you are running, apart from the value added tax, you are also paying tax on either profits or revenue (depends on what you do, if you do software - revenue tax is preferred because the rate is lower and you have effectively zero costs).
Of course it gets further complicated if your company is a standalone legal entity, but in that case you have a lot more funny scenarios, e.g. you can go to jail for acting against the interest of the company you are the sole owner of.
At any medium or large company, this is going to vary significantly between projects and teams. At a small company, shit code is more or less to be expected.
