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That was the first one that came to mind for me too, just because cheating culture there is so wild.
This is a real picture of a test examination center in India during an exam. Those guys on the outside are literally scaling the walls of the building to pass stolen test answers to the students on the inside.
This photo shows parents scaling a multi-story building to help their kids cheat on an exam
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Think of all the layers that have to happen to get to that point. How do they get the answers in the first place? Why is it so easy for so many people to get the fake answers? How much did they bribe the cops outside to allow them to climb the walls without repercussions? What about the people paid to proctor the tests inside? And why does government do absolutely nothing when every person in the society knew it was going on?
This was another one. The "topper" of the Political Science exams in Bihar (meaning she got the #1 score in the entire state) didn't even know the name of the subject or what it was about. She called it "Prodigal Science" and said it studied how to make food.
The only reason I paused before saying India.....wouldn't the Chinese applicants be doing this too? And the Thais, the Bangladeshis, and everyone else?
Oh, it's not that they're getting the answers to the interviews, they're literally having someone else remote desktop into their interview session and write the code while the person being interviewed is "pretending" to write the code during the screen share. Some interviewers can catch it, some can't and some will ignore it (nepotism). The Reddit post is mainly talking about them cheating during the job interview's technical assessment.
You look at a company like Qualcomm 30% of their workforce is from India (can be verified on Linkedin). That is wild.
shyt is a big reason why the interview process for tech is broken.
China is more legit: 40% of the Global top 200 and 30% of the top 1000 rankings are from China. I think the youngest "grand master" in the world is a 14 year old Chinese kid. For the most part, they're widely considered P4P the best at these things. China is more of a powerhouse when it comes to the EE/Hardware field though that's the field we outsource the most to them.
Software-wise I don't think they or anyone else will take it over from India who'll basically shut them out of the jobs anyways like they do to us here
China, Singapore, Eastern Europe and the United States (a few of the top names on Code Forces are M.I.T students) run the table at the very top for these coding competitions/Leetcode rankings but it's funny to see all the jobs go to people from India
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