I was a contract developer at a very large "shoe and apparel company".

I saw the same thing. Low quality / skilled developers were hired on in droves. Only to "train" other new contractors. (e.g. copy all these files from my machine and do these 30 steps, and then the local environment should work)

They were hiring guys right out of India. Which made team communication difficult. It was a mess, and code quality really suffered.

I immediately started looking for a new job after started.