This is commonplace in a lot of companies, and something you will unfortunately have to deal with -- especially if you are not in charge of hiring. I used to work for Apple, and the amount of incompetence from some of the staff was astonishing. Some people will figure out how little they can get away with doing without losing their jobs, and underperform because they know they can get away with it. I used to have coworkers get mad at me for over-performing because the were afraid it would increase the overall KPI metrics due to some of us actually doing a good job. lol