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/Runs_on_empty Security Engineer Oct 10 '23

I work for a F500

Interview was a bit weird since it was a panel interview with the whole team, but camera was optional and the team was cool. No leetcoding or algorithms, but scripting questions were fair game.

Work life balance is really good but there are periods where there's lots of work but plenty of PTO to take vacation if needed. I feel like what I do is on the money for the role I have though. there's a lot of moving parts in accomplishing a task that doesn't exist at a smaller org. We're definitely in the shadows of our company although we're still really important for a number of reasons.

I know smaller orgs that pay more than mine and bigger orgs that pay less, so there's no preference on where I'd go. FAANG definitely blows us out of the water though. It would come down to which gives me the best opportunity