Security_Engineer_Interview_Questions

I spent a couple hours the spring of 2016 reading through Glassdoor.com to see what users submitted for security questions they'd received while interviewing for security engineer jobs. I wrote down all of them that weren't duplicates and that's what you've got: raw job interview questions. These are apparently the same questions asked by Google, Salesforce, LinkedIn, etc.

I purposefully didn't map the question to a company. That's not the point of this repo. Learning is.

Security is difficult to get your arms around, much less your brain. I sorted the questions into logical topic groups, though. I'm also answering the questions periodically at https://medium.com/@theporkskewer.

There's also a blog post about how these questions arose from imposter syndrome: https://theporkskewer.medium.com/beginners-mind-vs-imposter-syndrome-996c6a2d2ffa and a longer blog post titled So You Want To Get Into Cybersecurity (https://medium.com/@theporkskewer/so-you-want-to-get-into-cyber-security-ca6864e71c34) that might be interesting to you also.

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