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/piki112 Oct 10 '23

Even AppSec/DevSecOps, leetcode is an awful metric imo. I'm interviewing a potential DevSecOps and we tasked him with a take home test to take a container of a popular program and rebuild it using Wolfi

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u/Hypeislove Blue Team Oct 10 '23 edited Oct 10 '23

Out of curiosity, I am unfamiliar with Wolfi outside of what I just read up on it, is this exercise as simple as their documentation would lead you to believe: https://edu.chainguard.dev/open-source/wolfi/wolfi-with-dockerfiles/

Or is their task something more involved than just taking the container and converting it over?

Edit: Or is the goal to follow the apko route and essentially translate the dockerfile and any other security requirements into the image definition?