Tech IndustryFeb 28, 2017

Prove you're an engineer if you want to come into the country

"I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration. Welcome to America." An Andela engineer talks about what happened to him on Sunday: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/software-engineer-detained-several-hours-us-customs-given-fairchild

A software engineer is detained for several hours by U.S. Customs - and given a test to prove he's an engineer
A software engineer is detained for several hours by U.S. Customs - and given a test to prove he's an engineer
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Juniper faSt60 Feb 28, 2017

It's a hoax

Google IMissYou Feb 28, 2017

how do you know?

LinkedIn Neodelight Feb 28, 2017

I find this hard to believe.

Microsoft S Nutella Feb 28, 2017

omgmg, I would so lay on the peanut butter thick! It's not like the border agent would know the difference! "Well, we start with the root of the tree, called the Trunk. Then you construct sap objects whose goal is to traverse the tree from the root to the trunk to the branches to the leaves. Then as the sap traverses the tree, you put the info in a bark object which surrounds the tree. Now once you've obtained your bark object, you have all the information necessary to construct a new tree. You walk your bark object until you find a seed, which will become the new root of your balanced tree. You need to pass the seed to a Dirt () constructor and pass along a hydro component, otherwise your tree size will be severely limited. And now that your seed object is fully initialized, all you have to do is to take your bark object's sun exposure and you make everything on North and East go in the right branch of the seed, and everything that was south and west go in the left branch. Repeat until you're out of bark. The result is a BST. lolol!! Bam Bam. Then they'll be like, yup. Engineer. Move along!!

Microsoft Charles Feb 28, 2017

And go through it really fast!

Google Yasmine Feb 28, 2017

Tough question. I wouldn't be able to write AVL or Red black implementation on the spot

Microsoft pwd Feb 28, 2017

Must be fake news ...

Google himem.sys Feb 28, 2017

Good opportunity to publish "Cracking the Border Security Code Interview"

Microsoft S Nutella Feb 28, 2017

Bam Bam Lolol!!

Cisco fyNL26 Feb 28, 2017

ICE = TSA with guns

Microsoft jkf Feb 28, 2017

sounds like a PR story by the startup.