Most of it seemed superior to the actual course material as it most often included parables, idioms, diagrams, and community sourced notes. They all had an earnest plan to learn as much of the material (if not more) than their American peers but they were simply playing another game.
The reality is that the former student will probably never get a place at the table because they’ll get filtered out of the ‘elite’ pipeline sooner than later, and even if they do make it through, they probably also lack the same resources for your companies’s interview process.
Some people want to do it on their own and refuse to cheat. What is the best strategy for someone in that group? Is school and big tech just not for them?
The cops caught the perps (kids) and gave them immunity to name the folks that set them up to do the job. Surprise: the kids did it all on their own. Immunity was kept: they got off.