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Questions surrounding infrastructure, in depth OWASP (and how to fix/remediate), code review, penetration testing methodology, threat modeling, applied cryptography (TLS, symmetric vs. asymmetric, cipher strengths), communication style.
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Senior Product Security Engineer

Interviewed at Salesforce

4.1
Oct 15, 2018

Questions surrounding infrastructure, in depth OWASP (and how to fix/remediate), code review, penetration testing methodology, threat modeling, applied cryptography (TLS, symmetric vs. asymmetric, cipher strengths), communication style.

1st round(w/the recruiter): Describe your position Why are you looking for a new job? What made you apply to this one? What are looking for in a new role? 2nd round(w/the manager) Pretty much the same questions as above and customer related questions 3rd round(w/technical person) Going through your resume. Explain the difference between 2 databases(MongoDB and Google Big Query) What happens when you enter a website? What runs before DNS? dcp How to get DNS? Explain what is cloud?
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Cloud Security Engineer

Interviewed at Netskope

4.3
Mar 7, 2019

1st round(w/the recruiter): Describe your position Why are you looking for a new job? What made you apply to this one? What are looking for in a new role? 2nd round(w/the manager) Pretty much the same questions as above and customer related questions 3rd round(w/technical person) Going through your resume. Explain the difference between 2 databases(MongoDB and Google Big Query) What happens when you enter a website? What runs before DNS? dcp How to get DNS? Explain what is cloud?

I had no troubles with any of the tech questions but I defintiely got one wrong (altho I hinted it was more of a guess than knowledge) and couldn't answer another. The most difficult were business questions as they have fewer obviously correct answers.
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Security Engineer

Interviewed at Amazon

3.5
Apr 22, 2014

I had no troubles with any of the tech questions but I defintiely got one wrong (altho I hinted it was more of a guess than knowledge) and couldn't answer another. The most difficult were business questions as they have fewer obviously correct answers.

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