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Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer (mashable.com)
New submitter mendred quotes a report from Mashable: Celestine Omin, a software engineer at Andela -- a tech startup that connects developers in Africa with U.S employers -- had a particularly unwelcoming reception when he deplaned at John F. Kennedy Airport and was given a test to prove he was actually a software engineer. A LinkedIn post detailing Omin's challenging experience explained that upon landing in New York after spending 24 miserable hours on a Qatar Airways flight, he was given some trouble about the short-term visa he obtained for his trip. According to the post, an unprepared and exhausted Omin waited in the airport for approximately 20 minutes before being questioned by a Customs and Border Protection officer about his occupation. After several questions were asked, he was reportedly brought to a small room and told to sit down, where he was left for another hour before another customs officer entered and resumed grilling him. Omin was instructed to answer the following questions: "Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced," and "What is an abstract class, and why do you need it."
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I donâ(TM)t work for free. If they want me to solve problems, they can sign a consulting contract.
But hereâ(TM)s an idea, if they are going to force software engineers to do this sort of thing, maybe they can break up some vexing Homeland Security software problem and piecemeal it out, sort of like crowdsourcingâ¦
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Nonsense. They have tasers. They could keep themselves amused all night.
You, on the other hand, might enjoy it less.
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He really should have messed with them. Binary tree? That is where we obtain the components for the binary explosive.
you fail.. the answer is
if (story) { interesting = true }
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I wonder what kind of tests do they give them.
Surely it would have been easier to check if he was an engineer by forcing him to try to talk to a girl?
The correct answer is that solving the problem would incur a consulting fee, but you are not allowed to work on a tourist visa (or as a visitor under a visa waiver program), so he'll have to ask someone else.
Recursion is always the answer: