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- Coding: general parsing log files and looking for patterns, some basic ciphers, SQL queries - Security based questions: drilling into TLS, DNS covered channels, high level questions about building security program for a small size company
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Cyber Security Engineer

Interviewed at Google

4.4
Mar 13, 2022

- Coding: general parsing log files and looking for patterns, some basic ciphers, SQL queries - Security based questions: drilling into TLS, DNS covered channels, high level questions about building security program for a small size company

Then i made it to the rounds which was 4 interviews in a 5 hour block. First was technical security questions was asked about api security, how to secure microservices, bearer tokens, oauth oidc etc 2nd was a pen test of an application where they show you the vunerabilities and ask you to find them in the app (xss, ssrf, idor, aes, etc) 3rd was behavioral bunch of how would you handle this in this security scenario 4th was a manager rd to go over team and few techincal questions
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Security Engineer

Interviewed at DoorDash

3.6
Jan 18, 2023

Then i made it to the rounds which was 4 interviews in a 5 hour block. First was technical security questions was asked about api security, how to secure microservices, bearer tokens, oauth oidc etc 2nd was a pen test of an application where they show you the vunerabilities and ask you to find them in the app (xss, ssrf, idor, aes, etc) 3rd was behavioral bunch of how would you handle this in this security scenario 4th was a manager rd to go over team and few techincal questions

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