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Why do you want to work here? Where have you worked before? What skills or experience do you have that directly apply to this job? Are you comfortable with the fact that every project will be different in some way than any other? Can you work in a diverse work environment? And the one question I have never had on another interview: One requirement to work here is that you have to have one distinctive thing about you that no one else has. This is the way we diversify our workforce. What is unique about you? Various people's uniqueness: one was one of a set of triplets, one had previously worked for Barney the purple dinosaur, one was a refugee from Russia, one trained horses on the weekend, one had been in prison, one coached soccer, one was an artist
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Security Engineer

Interviewed at Diebold Nixdorf

3.4
Mar 18, 2024

Why do you want to work here? Where have you worked before? What skills or experience do you have that directly apply to this job? Are you comfortable with the fact that every project will be different in some way than any other? Can you work in a diverse work environment? And the one question I have never had on another interview: One requirement to work here is that you have to have one distinctive thing about you that no one else has. This is the way we diversify our workforce. What is unique about you? Various people's uniqueness: one was one of a set of triplets, one had previously worked for Barney the purple dinosaur, one was a refugee from Russia, one trained horses on the weekend, one had been in prison, one coached soccer, one was an artist

What have you done w/docker? What AWS experience do you have? Tell me: about Same origin policy about CORS how to store passwords in a web app how to build an authentication module‘ about Click jacking about Cert pinning - Why are we doing this? about Mobile (keystore) about Ssrf about Headers for modern browsers hsts/secure/etc/httponly about http pollution about XSRF - what if can’t use nonces? What keeps you up at night? about XSS/XSRF/SQLi about Inter tier auth about Galois counter mode about Authenticated encryption about Docker container - security about fine grained vs coarse grained entitlements about PFS about Async vs Sync enc Top 5 thing to secure a web site about a recent Scripting story about a recent InfoSec story about Tcp vs udp behavior - when scanned if port is not bound
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Senior Security Engineer

Interviewed at Goldman Sachs

3.7
Apr 1, 2018

What have you done w/docker? What AWS experience do you have? Tell me: about Same origin policy about CORS how to store passwords in a web app how to build an authentication module‘ about Click jacking about Cert pinning - Why are we doing this? about Mobile (keystore) about Ssrf about Headers for modern browsers hsts/secure/etc/httponly about http pollution about XSRF - what if can’t use nonces? What keeps you up at night? about XSS/XSRF/SQLi about Inter tier auth about Galois counter mode about Authenticated encryption about Docker container - security about fine grained vs coarse grained entitlements about PFS about Async vs Sync enc Top 5 thing to secure a web site about a recent Scripting story about a recent InfoSec story about Tcp vs udp behavior - when scanned if port is not bound

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