Celestine Omin is a Nigerian software engineer who works for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s company Andela, founded to give talented African coders an entree into the leading American tech firms; this week, he flew to the USA on a B1/B2 visa to meet with the company, but he found himself detained at the border.
The CBP guards who detained Omin after his 24-hour flight were skeptical that he was a real software engineer. They apparently googled “quizzes to give to software engineers” and told him to answer ten questions (e.g. “Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced” and “What is an abstract class, and why do you need it?”) to gain entry into the country.
The ordeal ended when a CBP officer called Andela and confirmed that Omin was an engineer.
NoBroComputing, burgeoning fascist police state edition.
Wow. I’m overwhelmed
people somehow still got the audacity to ask “what racism has to do with tech/science?” especially whites, here’s an example. it has everything to do with your life, everywhere you go.
And this is not an “isolated incident” because I know some silly bitch is gonna try that mess
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