We have a Moroccan lady. She graduated eight, nine months before this. A mother of two. And her English, I'm not saying she's bad or something, I'm just sharing my experience: when you listened to her, you didn't feel like she would get any interview.
Then she called me. "Kuzzat, I got an interview." A German manufacturing company.
I did not help her the way people imagine a teacher helps, which is by cheating the interview. I analyzed her task. I looked at what they were asking her to do and I told her what I saw in it.
By then I had been talking to her for maybe six months, back and forth, once in a while. Not every day. Once in a while, when she needed something, she asked. When it got difficult she didn't disappear the way people disappear. She showed up again with the next question.
She was carrying two children at home, months of applications with nothing coming back, and the English I described, into a building where other graduates from the same class had already decided the market was closed.
Her English was that weak. So what did the rounds actually test?
Not coding. I told her that on the phone. You know what, this is not about coding. They want to learn how you problem solve, your mindset, whether you're good at teamwork or not. She went in with that. She passed three or four rounds, and she did really well. Now she's getting the offer. She's very grateful. And she never quits. What she has is patience and resilience.