A Lagos-based software engineer, Celestine Omin, has taken a written test at the United States boarder office in New York on
arrival in the country, reports ITRealms.
According to BBC.com, Omin was at the weekend, made to sit for a written
test by US airport immigration officers because they were unconvinced he was
telling the truth about his skills.
Omin, 28, and employee of Andela, reportedly landed in New
York's John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport last Sunday after a 24-hour flight from
Nigeria.
Andela, ITRealms gathered,
is a technology start-up with offices in New York, Lagos, Nairobi and San
Francisco.
Equally, BBC.com reports that the firm specializes on recruiting
"the most talented developers on the African continent" and connects same,
with technology employers in US for potential job vacancies.
ITRealms recalls
that Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg while on visit to Nigeria, took time to visit
Andela's office in Lagos, last year.
Further, Omin was reportedly granted a short-term visa to
work with First Access, a financial technology company in New York's Manhattan
district.
After being asked a series of questions by a US Customs and
Border Protection officer, he was taken into a room for further checks.
Omin recalled that immigration officer had told him, "Your
visa says you are a software engineer. Is that correct?" before he was handed
over a piece of paper, a pen and told to answer these two questions to prove he
is actually a software engineer:
"Write a function to check if a Binary Search Tree is
balanced."
"What is an abstract class, and why do you need
it?"
Chuks Egbune with additional report from BBC/GEE
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