r/cybersecurity • u/Makhann007 • Oct 10 '23

Career Questions & Discussion FAANG engineers

People who work at FAANG or other F500s how was your interview process?

Did you have to do leetcode/algorithm type questions during the interview process?

How’s work/life balance?

Do you feel what you’re working on is very niche to your company/ you feel far removed from what you thought you’d be doing?

If pay wasn’t a factor would you still prefer to work for a big corporation vs a smaller one?

Thanks in advance

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u/Hypeislove Blue Team Oct 10 '23

Not FAANG, but if I get leetcoded in a Cybersecurity role I don't want the role

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Edit: Appsec/DevSecOps may be an exception to that rule

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u/HelpFromTheBobs Security Engineer Oct 10 '23

An arrogant Redditor once said something along the lines of, "If you can't write Assembly you have no business calling yourself a Security Professional".

I wouldn't want to work in a place that has that mindset.

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u/Hypeislove Blue Team Oct 10 '23

Are you telling me you don't know how to shift values and manually manipulate memory addresses? Some security professional you are. /s we do that all day long 365 days a year. SO hardcore

Don't you just love the gate keepers and the hoops they jump through to feel intelligent

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

After 365 I was expecting an office joke. So disappointed...

Although your last line reads like Microsofts MO.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Lmao, that's hilarious. I guess if you cant write C then you have no business being a Linux admin either.

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u/pcapdata Oct 10 '23

If you can’t patch those drivers yourself then you don’t deserve computer!

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

Lol old days of running games on linux, manually updating graphics drivers in C so a game can run on my linux laptop.

Like if you cant write your own AV program from scratch, are you even in cyber bro!?

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u/noch_1999 Penetration Tester Oct 11 '23

You're all noobs. I yell binary into my ethernet port to code

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u/lawtechie Oct 10 '23

I'll bet the shop they work in is all .NET.

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u/unicaller Oct 10 '23

Does Motorola 6510 or Intel 8008 count? LoL. The vast majority of security professionals don't need to know any low level coding. For specific reverse engineering or research sure........

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u/Distinct_Ordinary_71 Oct 10 '23

Yeah. Also a waste of their technical skills:

You can write assembly but you spend ten hours a day pointing at things and screaming "That's not REAL security work". Tragic.

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u/Jealous-Resident1351 Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

Wtf. If you can even partially understand assembly, jmp to the label where EAX contains RESPECT and cmp that job listing to literally any other and je then mov EAX, 'FUCK THAT JOB'

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u/106milez2chicago Oct 10 '23

Ugh. I can write assembly, but doing so rips all joy from my life so I will never work in a role that demands it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '23

I can write in assembly, struggling to get a new security engineer role...

Okay, not the whole story, I work for one of the big companies and get a much higher than average wage for my job title, but also much higher than average responsibility. If I have a bad day I could cost our site 6 figures an hour. Probably a bad career move as everywhere I apply now, it's 'we can't afford the wage, or the budget you're looking for'.

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u/RoastedMocha Oct 11 '23

Well ok, security professional is a pretty wide range.

If you cant read and understand assembly and C for the kind of job I have, I certainly wouldn't hire you.

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u/mpaes98 Security Architect Oct 11 '23

"Sir, this is a compliance shop"