Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US
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Aussie’s incredibly weird US border interview
TENSIONS are running high at United States borders at the moment.
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Could be worse. He could be asked why manhole covers are round or what his greatest weakness is.
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@Groaner said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
Could be worse. He could be asked
why manhole covers are round or what his greatest weakness is.PHPnodejsGo questions.
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@Groaner said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
why manhole covers are round
Duh! The pipes are also round, so if the cover wasn't round then the water wouldn't fit
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This might actually be the best thing about a Trump presidency. Everything out of the ordinary is questioned now. If this had happened under the Obama administration, and it quite likely did as rank-and-file civil service doesn't get fired when administrations change, you wouldn't have heard a word about it. It's about time the press actually did their jobs instead of just passing along press releases.
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“Do they not allow bad software engineers into the United States?” It sounds like Alex might be behind this.
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@antiquarian I wonder if it's legal for Trump to pass an executive order preventing PHP programmers from entering the US.
It's for the safety of all citizens!
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Same thing happened to an African programmer:
A software engineer is detained for several hours by U.S. Customs — and given a test to prove he’s an engineer
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.
The questions administered by the border agent:
“Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced.”
“What is an abstract class, and why do you need it?”
Also, when I told a border agent I was a physicist when coming back from Europe in 2012, he asked me if the world was going to end on December 21. I'm pretty sure it was a joke, but who knows.
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@MZH said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
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Not a very good attempt at bribery, but it certainly verifies you as a nerd.
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“He said, ‘Look, I am going to let you go, but you don’t look convincing to me,’” Omin said. “I didn’t say anything back. I just walked out.”
Omin later learned that U.S. Customs allowed him into the country after officials called Andela and First Access to corroborate his story.
Lol
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@MZH said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
“Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced.”
“What is an abstract class, and why do you need it?”Since the border agent was definitely not qualified to check the answers, this sounds like a stalling tactic while he's verifying the visa. Not that this excuses the treatment; at the very least the border agent should have apologized after he made sure that the visa was okay.
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@asdf Pffft. Apologizing to immigrants makes America unsafe.
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@asdf Article mentions that they called his employer / organization to verify. So, yeah. Unsure why they wouldn't just tell him so?
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@anonymous234 said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
@antiquarian I wonder if it's legal for Trump to pass an executive order preventing PHP programmers from entering the US.
It's for the safety of all citizens!
Some of us are stupid enough to use PHP, but not stupid enough to try to move to US...
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@cvi said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
Unsure why they wouldn't just tell him so?
Because a job which allows you to do basically whatever the fuck you want to other people attracts sadistic assholes who love to scare tired immigrants and act like a tough guy?
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I was reading it a Slashdot and there was some comments about white board interviews. I finally understood why these didn't catch down here.
Whiteboard interviews are a mean to do age discrimination and get away with it in the USA.
As we don't have laws against it, we don't need whiteboard interviews.
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@fbmac said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
Whiteboard interviews are a mean to do age discrimination and get away with it in the USA.
What?
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@loopback0 they make questions most people that left college for more than 10 years wouldn't need or care about (unless he prepares specifically for these interviews)
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@fbmac Er... if that's true, it's an awful method, at best. How long does it take the next clown to post an article online about "the top 10 most asked questions at software engineer interviews," for example? It's not like this is a move that can't be easily countered by the applicant simply knowing about it. Not that I entirely support "whiteboard interviews" as you seem to conceptualize them using only gotcha questions, but I've been interviewed using a whiteboard quite a few times, and most of the time the questions were reasonable. Things like the application of basic set theory to SQL queries; you know, simple questions that test knowledge which is actually useful to the company.
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@bb36e said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
@Groaner said in Aussie software developer had to answer some Python questions to enter the US:
why manhole covers are round
Duh! The pipes are also round, so if the cover wasn't round then the water wouldn't fit
That sounds suspiciously like how an AI would respond... Detain him!
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