2008-02-28

Things they asked me in the US visa interview

I’m totally not making this shit up.

— So you work at Google, eh? Where is the Google office in Brazil?
— There’s one in São Paulo and one in Belo Horizonte.
— What platform do you use at Google?
— We use Linux.
— Who created Linux?
— Er, a Finnish guy called Linus.
— Ok, you passed.

leoboiko @ 18:14:48

5 comments

  1. My interview included: Why you gone to Angola ? Mandriva is a Linux company right?

    And in the police borders on Miami: Guard: What purpose of the conference Me: Open Source conference in Mountain View top talk about Linux ( KDE would be so strange to say ) Guard: Linux? Ahh Oracle Linux ? Me: Well, this is just a brand of Linux, we have lot of other brands Guard: Really, didn’t know about that.

    Stamped my passport ang done :-)

    Comment by Helio Castro — 2008-02-29 08:19:46

  2. WTF that was your interview?

    Comment by Yves Junqueira — 2008-03-02 16:32:06

  3. O mesmo aconteceu com este colega meu:

    http://briglia.net/sdp/2008/02/14/e-o-visto/

    Comment by Thiago Marcos P. Santos — 2008-03-03 02:48:17

  4. Yves: yes. the only other question was “where did you work before”, but he didn’t ask for any kind of confirmation.

    Comment by leoboiko — 2008-03-03 11:53:56

  5. Heheheh… mine was last week. They only asked 2 questions:

    • Do you speak English?

    • Yeah, I speak, sort of… (the interviewer starts to laugh…)

    • I see that you traveled to Finland, what do you thought about it?

    • Hum, its clean, organized, and cold. But finish people are really polite.

    The interviewer laughs again and says to me that its a shame that Brazilian airline companies don’t have more options to fly to Europe (all is centered in Sao Paulo).

    • OK, you passed.
    • Huh, very nice!

    Comment by Adenilson Cavalcanti — 2008-03-07 10:07:16

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