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Nigerian software engineer detained by U.S. Customs at airport and given test
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:33 am
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:33 am
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Celestine Omin was accustomed to tackling tough engineering problems. Just not the two that the border agent had put in front of his face — or at least not now, after having spent 24 hours cramped in an economy seat on Qatar Airways.
It was Sunday, Feb. 26, and the 28-year-old software engineer had left his home in Lagos, Nigeria, to come to the United States for the first time. It was a work trip. For the last six months, Omin had been working for Andela, a startup that connects the top tech talent in Africa with employers in the U.S. Andela accepts less than 1 percent of applicants into its program and is backed by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. For this particular role, Omin was helping NYC-based fintech startup First Access create a JavaScript application for emerging markets and had secured a short-term visa.
After landing, Omin waited for 20 minutes and then reached the front of the line, where a Customs and Border Protection officer asked him a series of questions. It was here that Omin realized that the job might be challenging, but getting into America could now be impossible. No one at Andela had prepared him for the new reality.
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@cyberomin
I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration. Welcome to America.
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This post was edited on 3/1/17 at 11:36 am
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Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:36 am to Street Hawk
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I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration. Welcome to America.
Pretty sure this was standard at Ellis Island.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:37 am to Street Hawk
omg this is exactly how Hitler started out...
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:37 am to Street Hawk
If he doesn't like it, he can turn around and head back to the nigeria
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:37 am to Street Hawk
Nigerian software engineer
Sounds legit
Sounds legit
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:37 am to Street Hawk
if he's truly a software engineer that question should be a cinch.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:39 am to Street Hawk
quote:
I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration.
I have no idea what the frick this means. So I don't have any issue with U.S. Customs doing their job. Maybe someone can explain why I should be outraged.
This post was edited on 3/1/17 at 11:41 am
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:40 am to Street Hawk
Ones and zeros.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:40 am to Street Hawk
I hope the prince gets this cleared up
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:40 am to Street Hawk
quote:oh the horror
having spent 24 hours cramped in an economy seat on Qatar Airways
ETA:
quote:
It was a work trip.
sounds like a shitty company that can't afford business class
quote:yep
Omin had been working for Andela, a startup
This post was edited on 3/1/17 at 11:43 am
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:41 am to Street Hawk
Don't care. Welcome to America and if you don't like it you can carry your arse back to where you came from
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:41 am to upgrayedd
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:42 am to Street Hawk
frick these open border asshats. Every other country in the world has zero issue aggressively questioning people seeking entry into their country but when the US does it they get up in arms. News flash, people come here to do bad things. We have every right to question their motives. At least we don't openly demand bribes like some of the shite hole places I have been.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:43 am to DarthRebel
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Nigerian software engineer
Sounds legit
I wonder if he knows the prince? That son of a bitch is supposed to be wiring me $16 million dollars.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:44 am to Street Hawk
tough shite Nigerian prince.
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.
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.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:46 am to jbgleason
I've travelled all over and never been aggressively questioned you sir are an ignoramus
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:46 am to jbgleason
He's the one that wants to be here, or does he? I hope not.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:51 am to Street Hawk
This screams of BS.
Did they give him an unordered BST and asked him to balance it? If so this should take any SE a matter of seconds. That's a fundamental data structure that is taught at the frosh level.
Should be a valid question if you claim you are a software engineer should be very simple to answer.
I suppose they asked him to order a BST which is just a matter of comparison of keys.
Did they give him an unordered BST and asked him to balance it? If so this should take any SE a matter of seconds. That's a fundamental data structure that is taught at the frosh level.
Should be a valid question if you claim you are a software engineer should be very simple to answer.
I suppose they asked him to order a BST which is just a matter of comparison of keys.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:52 am to Street Hawk
quote:
I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration. Welcome to America.
2 Words.
Extreme. Vetting.
Posted on 3/1/17 at 11:54 am to Street Hawk
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No one at Andela had prepared him for the new reality
And no one would prepare us Americans to go to that sh*thole of a country Nigeria. Pretty sad when foreigners also are snowflakes.
Nigeria does have some great food though truth be told.
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