Security Engineer Interview Questions

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Describe how your background relates to the information security aspects of this position. Describe your experience securing Office 365/Azure or similar echo systems. What specific tools did you use and why? 3. Give an example where you’ve had more than one urgent priority assigned by different people, and you know you won’t be able to complete them both on time. How do you handle this situation? Describe a security-related project you were involved in. What was the project, what was your role, and what was the outcome? Describe a time when you made a mistake in a production environment.  Who was impacted? How did you resolve it? What did you learn from this mistake?  Describe your experience auditing and ensuring compliance of systems with sensitive data. Please specify the type of sensitive data you were securing.  Describe your experience collaborating with a large vendor to implement or manage a critical service. What role did the vendor play? What role did you play? You’ve been asked to implement a new data loss prevention feature in the campus-wide Office 365 environment.  The environment consists of 46,000 users.  How do you go about researching the technology and implementing it without user disruption?  9. Describe your involvement in an actual security incident. What happened? What was your role? How were the issues resolved? What unique challenges do you see in securing cloud services versus traditional on-premises environments?
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Application Security Engineer

Interviewed at University of Oregon

4.1
Jul 25, 2023

Describe how your background relates to the information security aspects of this position. Describe your experience securing Office 365/Azure or similar echo systems. What specific tools did you use and why? 3. Give an example where you’ve had more than one urgent priority assigned by different people, and you know you won’t be able to complete them both on time. How do you handle this situation? Describe a security-related project you were involved in. What was the project, what was your role, and what was the outcome? Describe a time when you made a mistake in a production environment.  Who was impacted? How did you resolve it? What did you learn from this mistake?  Describe your experience auditing and ensuring compliance of systems with sensitive data. Please specify the type of sensitive data you were securing.  Describe your experience collaborating with a large vendor to implement or manage a critical service. What role did the vendor play? What role did you play? You’ve been asked to implement a new data loss prevention feature in the campus-wide Office 365 environment.  The environment consists of 46,000 users.  How do you go about researching the technology and implementing it without user disruption?  9. Describe your involvement in an actual security incident. What happened? What was your role? How were the issues resolved? What unique challenges do you see in securing cloud services versus traditional on-premises environments?

- What is your management style? - How do you collaborate with your remote team member having emails and slack messages? - What bottlenecks did you have in your last projects, and what did you successfully address? - How to make sure some activity is done? - What do you do in your free time? - How do you work with an unfamiliar project?
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Security Engineer

Interviewed at Walt Disney Company

3.8
Feb 28, 2023

- What is your management style? - How do you collaborate with your remote team member having emails and slack messages? - What bottlenecks did you have in your last projects, and what did you successfully address? - How to make sure some activity is done? - What do you do in your free time? - How do you work with an unfamiliar project?

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