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It sounds plausible. Guy claims to be working as a programmer, border guard googles "basic programmer interview questions" or similar and asks them to see how t

It sounds plausible. Guy claims to be working as a programmer, border guard googles "basic programmer interview questions" or similar and asks them to see how the guy reacts. If he is totally lost, the probability that he's lying about his profession increases.

oh_sigh 10y ago
Something being plausible doesn't have any bearing on whether something is true or not. The pawn shop in my town getting robbed last night sounds plausible. But it didn't get robbed. And we don't even have a pawn shop in my town. Also, about 50% of the comments in this thread are some how relating this persons supposed treatment by border patrol to Trump. It kind of feels like people will just take any dubious, unsourced(and perhaps unsourecable) claims when they can even tangentially link them to the big bad man they hate, but can't stop thinking about.
- flukus 10y ago
  It's quickly turning into the new "Thanks Obama!".
- SmellyGeekBoy 10y ago
  Are you suggesting that the people opposed to Trump should just stop thinking about him?
bigiain 10y ago
Experienced devs and dev managers (me included) fuck up consistently in recruiting - employing people who "interview well" but drag the team down, or overlooking or excluding great potential team members 'cause they don't perform well "programming a whiteboard" - and now we expect some minimum wage rent-a-bully to accurately assess a "programmer's" skills based on reading wikipedia entries? I'm _reasonably_ certain my best front end dev probably doesn't even know what a binary search tree is. Same with half of my mobile devs, they probably vaguely recall them from college, but have never used them in 5 or 6 year mobile app dev careers. Should _they_ be denied entry at a border because they can't regurgitate some wikipedia page completely unrelated and mostly irrelevant to their specialisations?
- WildUtah 10y ago
  CBP agents get good wages and great benefits. They do not make minimum wage.
  - bigiain 10y ago
    Apologies... I'd like to issue a correction: " … and now we expect some reasonably well paid rent-a-bully with great benefits … "
- umanwizard 10y ago
  What evidence do you have that the answer "sorry, I've never heard of that; it must not come up much in iPhone development" would get them turned away at the border?

oh_sigh 10y ago

Something being plausible doesn't have any bearing on whether something is true or not. The pawn shop in my town getting robbed last night sounds plausible. But it didn't get robbed. And we don't even have a pawn shop in my town. Also, about 50% of the comments in this thread are some how relating this persons supposed treatment by border patrol to Trump. It kind of feels like people will just take any dubious, unsourced(and perhaps unsourecable) claims when they can even tangentially link them to the big bad man they hate, but can't stop thinking about.

flukus 10y ago
It's quickly turning into the new "Thanks Obama!".
SmellyGeekBoy 10y ago
Are you suggesting that the people opposed to Trump should just stop thinking about him?

bigiain 10y ago

Experienced devs and dev managers (me included) fuck up consistently in recruiting - employing people who "interview well" but drag the team down, or overlooking or excluding great potential team members 'cause they don't perform well "programming a whiteboard" - and now we expect some minimum wage rent-a-bully to accurately assess a "programmer's" skills based on reading wikipedia entries? I'm _reasonably_ certain my best front end dev probably doesn't even know what a binary search tree is. Same with half of my mobile devs, they probably vaguely recall them from college, but have never used them in 5 or 6 year mobile app dev careers. Should _they_ be denied entry at a border because they can't regurgitate some wikipedia page completely unrelated and mostly irrelevant to their specialisations?

WildUtah 10y ago
CBP agents get good wages and great benefits. They do not make minimum wage.
- bigiain 10y ago
  Apologies... I'd like to issue a correction: " … and now we expect some reasonably well paid rent-a-bully with great benefits … "
umanwizard 10y ago
What evidence do you have that the answer "sorry, I've never heard of that; it must not come up much in iPhone development" would get them turned away at the border?