a bureaucrat in the system was probably charged with making an authenticity test for programmers. they probably googled “programmer interview questions” and found binary search trees, and printed the answer alongside the question, which is what the ICE agent tried to test against.
the immigration situation in america is terrifying, but this incident is partially hilarious because our ineffective interview formats for software jobs have leaked out into the mainstream so much that it’s affecting immigration policies.
This is a joke … right? Why would ICE agents know about BST?
a bureaucrat in the system was probably charged with making an authenticity test for programmers. they probably googled “programmer interview questions” and found binary search trees, and printed the answer alongside the question, which is what the ICE agent tried to test against.
the immigration situation in america is terrifying, but this incident is partially hilarious because our ineffective interview formats for software jobs have leaked out into the mainstream so much that it’s affecting immigration policies.