US border guards can’t believe Nigerian man is a software engineer, google “questions to ask a software engineer” and give him a pop quiz
mostlysignssomeportents
Celestine Omin is a Nigerian software engineer who works for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s company Andela, founded to give talented African coders an entree into the leading American tech firms; this week, he flew to the USA on a B1/B2 visa to meet with the company, but he found himself detained at the border.
The CBP guards who detained Omin after his 24-hour flight were skeptical that he was a real software engineer. They apparently googled “quizzes to give to software engineers” and told him to answer ten questions (e.g. “Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced” and “What is an abstract class, and why do you need it?”) to gain entry into the country.
The ordeal ended when a CBP officer called Andela and confirmed that Omin was an engineer.
https://boingboing.net/2017/03/01/what-is-your-favorite-color.html
nobrocomputing
NoBroComputing, burgeoning fascist police state edition.
queennamaya
Wow. I’m overwhelmed
platanerx
people somehow still got the audacity to ask “what racism has to do with tech/science?” especially whites, here’s an example. it has everything to do with your life, everywhere you go.
futureblackpolitician
And this is not an “isolated incident” because I know some silly bitch is gonna try that mess
