Totally agree with Top Tup's post.
I had some strange experience training Jet Airways Indian pilots in the 90's, a few so so ones but many seemed to have gotten in through " connections ". There was a major disconnect between what the learn in basic flying school and what they did once they got into the airlines. They could quote the precisely the page number of the FCOM manual regarding an item of interest but could not grasp the application in daily flight operations despite repeated explanation and demonstration. Most have the attitude that airline training was like flight school training. I had a fellow TRE/TRI who was so exasperated that he always began his briefing with this " I am just a B737 type rating instructor, I am here to instruct you on the operations of the B737. I AM NOT A SCHOOL TEACHER, I AM ALSO NOT A FLIGHT SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR; the simulator training and line training schedules DO NOT ALLOW ME THE PRIVILEGE OF teaching you basic flying "