Celestine Omin is a Nigerian software engineer<\/a> 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.<\/p>\nThe 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. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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