When the in-experience are dirt cheap, almost free labour (Singapore do not have minimum wage - therefore $1 is minimum wage) and there is a large pile of work that experienced people refused to do because it will potentially fail and will open a large can of very huge worms, politically harmful to their careers. This is where hiring the unsuspecting, in-experienced newcomer can come in handy to be assigned and therefore blamed for project failures. This happens so much in Asia. I wonder when I will get blamed for the next project failure since Ijust joint a new company.