Bodyshop contractors will do anything. I've seen cases where those companies send shill candidates to interview, claim that candidates have more experience in reality (in one case a 22 year old with a decade of Oracle Financials experience) and submitting fake resumes.
Now I have a close friend from China, and the mistery is solved: others are doing their exams/essays/assignments for them.
Keep in mind though, this is likely a huge generalisation (not all Chinese cheat and other nationalities cheat as well), and I put more than half of the blame on the universities themselves (they earn a lot of money accepting these kinds of students), but long-term, it really dilutes the value of this education in my eyes.
Ya think? Sorry man I wouldn't be profiled as a cheater like that due to race or citizenship.
Public universities in the U.S. recorded 5.1 reports of alleged cheating for every 100 international students, versus one report per 100 domestic students
[0]: http://www.wsj.com/articles/foreign-students-seen-cheating-m...
On a more anecdotal level one of my fiancee's friends was dating a guy who sold SAT answers for a while.
I have a couple of friends who teach at international high schools here in Shanghai. It takes quite a long time to get through to the students that plagiarism is not okay and is taken seriously.
By the way no one brought up race in this thread until you did.
If it is widespread it's especially unfortunate considering there's already some controversy around the high numbers of asian applicants.
Btw, I only mention race because it is a central topic of the article.
Twice we hired someone based on the phone interview and it was someone else who showed up.
The third time it was someone reading interview answers off a chat client window.
I'm mostly annoyed because it reduces the value of the phone screen and requires more face to face interviews.
Indians cheat. A lot. It is just a different culture. Students in three different groups would turn in the exact same solution to a coding assignment, and they'd all get the same grade. I was baffled at first, then furious, and finally just learned to laugh about it, while understanding that they were only screwing themselves by not learning the material.
However, it did mean that the training programs would push out a ton of students that did not know a thing about programming, and definitely should not be in the industry. But it is understandable in a place like India where a software engineer can make a lot more money and earn far more respect than many of the alternatives.
I was friends with some of them who engaged in this. After being straight up asked for help during one exam, I warned them not do it, and that this behavior would get them kicked out of school here, but it didn't matter. Most were very smart and talented, and really didn't need to cheat. But they did anyway. Cultural thing, I guess.