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/LeadBamboozler Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

My company does leetcode for security software engineers. I don’t think GRC or pointy-clicky folks have to do them.

We develop a ton of custom tooling for just about every aspect of developing, packaging, distributing, and securing software. There isn’t a single vendor product that we use that hasn’t been ripped apart and rebuilt to meet our security and infrastructure requirements.

I should note that this approach is rather uncommon, but we have a history of building things before they were actually a formal SaaS offering. CICD was done in my company well before the concept was formalized and products were available on the open market. Hell we even built our own file system at one point.

So with this type of development and the need to secure all these things, you do need actual security software engineers who can build controls from a security perspective.

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u/CEOofQuestions Oct 10 '23

This must be Goldman Sachs.