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re: Nigerian software engineer detained by U.S. Customs at airport and given test
Posted on 3/1/17 at 12:57 pm to Catman88
Posted on 3/1/17 at 12:57 pm to Catman88
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At least the ones stateside are competent. Dealing with companies that outsource their development to India is the biggest thing I hate. There is a language barrier with both that you have to overcome However with non stateside Indian developers you have to hold thier hand for the most trivial fricking task
Completely agree. I was referring to the ones in our office living in the US
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Posted on 3/1/17 at 1:05 pm to Street Hawk
So if he would have said he was a p0rn star would they let him frick them to verify?
Posted on 3/1/17 at 1:10 pm to Nuts4LSU
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Omin later tells me that the questions looked to him like someone with no technical background Googled something like, “Questions to ask a software engineer.”
FAKE NEWS, I just googled: "Questions to ask a software engineer"
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1. Perfection or excellence?
2. How do you stay up-to-date and keep your skills sharp?
3. What personal projects do you have going on outside of work?
4. What type of challenges excite you professionally?
5. Can you solve this coding problem?
6. What does being a defensive programmer mean to you?
7. How do you test your code?
8. Do you prefer working as an individual, or as part of a team?
9. What are you looking for in your next team or company, what is important to you culturally?
10. Do you prefer to work for a company that is in build mode or maintenance mode?
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Omin tells me that the answers to the questions were technically correct,
Posted on 3/1/17 at 1:13 pm to CAD703X
Hardest part for me would be not answering as a smart arse
I would give them some c# sorted class calls then intentionally leave off ';'to frick with them.
Then I would throw in an obsure regular expression followed by a call to a fictitious api that solved us customs questions
I would give them some c# sorted class calls then intentionally leave off ';'to frick with them.
Then I would throw in an obsure regular expression followed by a call to a fictitious api that solved us customs questions
Posted on 3/1/17 at 1:16 pm to Catman88
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Then I would throw in an obsure regular expression followed by a call to a fictitious api that solved us customs questions
nigerians are masters at obfuscated javascript that hides malware anyway so i imagine he could get away with it.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 1:16 pm to Street Hawk
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Lagos, Nigeria
The worst place I've ever been.....and I've been in both a war zone and Chicago.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 1:32 pm to Street Hawk
The customs agent in ft Lauderdale when I came back from Mexico asked me about the med mal damages limitation in the Florida wrongful death statute when I told him I was a lawyer. ZOMG I'm going to CNN to report this!
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:07 pm to Catman88
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This is frosh level.
NOBODY balances BSTs in the real world. It's classroom exercise/theory shite that nobody remembers after a year. It's like learning how to do math without a scientific calculator or asking an architect to do a Geometry proof.
He should have known what an Abstract Class was, However. I'd like to see his answer b/c I can definitely see how it could be several things.
This post was edited on 3/1/17 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:14 pm to StrongSafety
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Still waiting to hear about all those anglos that have been detained :hmmm:
Here's one: From Australia
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:16 pm to Street Hawk
Well I guess I am glad im a white baw from Louisiana! Because I graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in which my job is in telecom (specifically RF/Test & Validation) for WCDMA and LTE/LTE-A technologies.
I work in both software and hardware which would open me up to some very fricking interesting questions. A network element map is gigantic.
I work in both software and hardware which would open me up to some very fricking interesting questions. A network element map is gigantic.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:25 pm to jbgleason
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News flash, people come here to do bad things.
News flash - maybe 0.00001% do, sure. Not bad for any demographic, and you face more danger when you get in your car and go for a drive.
Another news flash - his ticket was paid for by an American startup, with American investors.
Another news flash - plenty of people were killed by drunk drivers during Mardi Gras. So far as I can tell, none were killed by people coming here on a visa.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:33 pm to 20MuleTeam
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I've travelled all over and never been aggressively questioned you sir are an ignoramus
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20MuleTeam
If you are white with a US passport you will not be hassled in most places. If you are dark skinned with a passport from a third world shite hole full of terrorists you will have a different experience.
These snowflakes whining about getting into the US better never try to visit Israel.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:34 pm to Street Hawk
So did he answer it or no?
It doesn't sound like they asked for the most efficient answer, so all he had to do was iterate the tree, find the median, then sort left and right based on the median. Voila, balanced tree. While not the most efficient approach, it will give the correct answer.
A real engineer should be able to think of trivial, inefficient answers like this.
It doesn't sound like they asked for the most efficient answer, so all he had to do was iterate the tree, find the median, then sort left and right based on the median. Voila, balanced tree. While not the most efficient approach, it will give the correct answer.
A real engineer should be able to think of trivial, inefficient answers like this.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:35 pm to foshizzle
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News flash - maybe 0.00001% do, sure. Not bad for any demographic, and you face more danger when you get in your car and go for a drive.
Driving is dangerous so therefore our immigration officials shouldn't guard against terrorists. OK, got it.
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Another news flash - his ticket was paid for by an American startup, with American investors.
Nobody already in the US ever supports terrorism. OK, got it.
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Another news flash - plenty of people were killed by drunk drivers during Mardi Gras. So far as I can tell, none were killed by people coming here on a visa.
I would say something smart arse here too but this is such a stupid comment that I don't need to say anything. People die in DWI car wrecks! Open the borders!!!
I am glad you are t running DHS.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:36 pm to Catman88
at people who think CBP officers know what the hell a Binary Search Tree is. Apparently, the second question was about abstract classes. I can totally see how a software developer that doesn't deal with OOP languages everyday could miss that question. In my previous job, our code base was done entirely in C. I can bet some of our developers couldn't answer that question correctly.Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:42 pm to Nuts4LSU
Googled something like, “Questions to ask a software engineer.”
My thinking exactly. How does any Customs/Border agent know to ask technical questions. If someone said they were an ornithologist, would they be asked to list order, family, genus and species for Northern Cardinal? I would honestly like to see the questions asked for each profession!
My thinking exactly. How does any Customs/Border agent know to ask technical questions. If someone said they were an ornithologist, would they be asked to list order, family, genus and species for Northern Cardinal? I would honestly like to see the questions asked for each profession!
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:44 pm to Anfield Road
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In my previous job, our code base was done entirely in C. I can bet some of our developers couldn't answer that question correctly.
come on. classes are a fundamental coding methodology. just because you're using an archaic programming language for some ancient application doesn't excuse you from understanding OOP since that concept is FUNDAMENTAL to every modern programming language for the last 30+ years.
This post was edited on 3/1/17 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:44 pm to mikelbr
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NOBODY balances BSTs in the real world. It's classroom exercise/theory shite that nobody remembers after a year. It's like learning how to do math without a scientific calculator or asking an architect to do a Geometry proof.
Exactly!
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:47 pm to TeddyPadillac
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I was asked "what are you doing in Canada and when are you leaving Canada" when I went to Canada. The nerve of those Canadians.
Just tell them you are there seeking asylum from Trump and you will stay as long as they keep giving you free stuff without asking you to work.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 2:58 pm to CAD703X
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come on. classes are a fundamental coding methodology. just because you're using an archaic programming language for some ancient application doesn't excuse you from understanding OOP since that concept is FUNDAMENTAL to every modern programming language for the last 30+ years.
In a lot of embedded systems environments, C is the dominant programming language. If you're an old embedded systems engineer, you might not even need to learn OOP or use classes depending on where you work. Let's not forget a lot of the older firmware engineers majored in Electrical Engineering, which probably didn't emphasize OOP in the curriculum (at least back in the day).
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