Yeah, most European and Asian airlines have cadet programs.. that is how they get most or many of their pilots.. that and the former military pilots.
It's completely different in those countries in terms of how things work, so it's not a fair comparison at all.

I'm familiar with the recruiting/training practices of a few overseas airlines, and they pick the few BRIGHTEST, most intelligent students... I mean like the top 1% or something like that. In Europe, flying is extremely expensive so there isn't much of a GA market like there is in the US... in Asia, there are hardly any flight schools... so pilot slots in both regions are rare and competitive. It's like not the US where literally anyone with $$$ or a cosigner can become a pilot. So you MUST be the best.
(I'm not trying to argue that you have to be a genius to fly an airplane... but that is one of the reasons why those overseas cadet programs work... because they pick the best candidates to begin with... smart and motivated.)

And training is wholly different too. I have a friend who instructs at IFTA, which trains newhires for ANA, EVA, etc. From day one, the students are trained to think, act and perform like airline pilots. It's all about procedures... One minor example, he told me that if you're taxiing and you deviate from the taxiway centerline even for one second you have to announce it (in specific terms, which I forgot.) All in all, it's pretty strict and rigorous. Many of us regular joes would not survive such training!
BTW, these cadet programs don't cram the training in 90 days, like some of the pilot programs we have here in the US... the airlines that I know of spend 2-3 years training their cadets.