How was your latest tech interview experience?

not coding roles, but still "tech" most recent interviews: it's a mixed bag

- assignments that take multiple hours over multiple days to prepare or a 3hr presentation only to be ghosted afterwards
- the classic thing of requiring a combination of skills that does not exist in the world
- my favourite these days is when they reach out, unsolicited, to you and convince you to come for a chat only to ask the cliché interview question: "tell us why you want to work for company x?" ... motherfcker YOU called ME, I never even knew you existed, so how about YOU tell ME why I should WANT to work for you?!?
 
got_shafted said:
Lol you guys love hating on anyone with a different world view. The point I'm making is that ZA is not FAANG-land

1. Any idiot can realize what's a good salary in ZA via offerzen or levels.fyi.
2. It's global company making > $10 billion in revenue
3. Yes I'm a nepo baby
4. If I screw up is there worldwide customer impact? Yes

If you guys are so smart you should have realized that C-level executives are sometimes placed via nepotism, it's how the world works.
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In my experience (which includes FAANG-land and non-FAANG-land), when something fundamental like this is broken, it’s a company to be avoided. As @Hamster already mentioned, one doesn’t generally have to run the FAANG gauntlet for a WebDev role, but still, the lower the technical requirements, the less likely the role is to be a a positive career movement.

Pushing the idea that interviews are free work and should be avoided (someone else said this) or that it’s all about who you know is harmful advice to put out there.

Right now it doesn’t sound like you have a legit contract:
got_shafted said:
So I just realized that I've been working at my new job for a while now and all I got was a letter of appointment, is this normal? In all of my previous jobs I usually got super long contracts with clauses and what not.
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Or that pay is that great:
got_shafted said:
do you get a prescription from a GP or Dermatologist? Just asking because if I ask my GP he'll hit me with a consulation bill just for him to tell me to see a Dermatologist
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cguy said:
In my experience (which includes FAANG-land and non-FAANG-land), when something fundamental like this is broken, it’s a company to be avoided. As @Hamster already mentioned, one doesn’t generally have to run the FAANG gauntlet for a WebDev role, but still, the lower the technical requirements, the less likely the role is to be a a positive career movement.

Pushing the idea that interviews are free work and should be avoided (someone else said this) or that it’s all about who you know is harmful advice to put out there.

Right now it doesn’t sound like you have a legit contract:


Or that pay is that great:
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He probably uses php.
 
I remember doing a Tech Check for Delphi early 2000s. I failed miserably as the test was not about programming in Object Pascal, but more about nonsense like "In which sub menu of the IDE do you find the following option" and "What's the keyboard shortcut for the following commands".

Are Tech Checks still around?
 
Problem when organizing a tech interview through an agency, is if you do not pass the interview process, the agency writes you off and sails into the sunset. These are ladies in an office who know nothing about IT and have this narrow concept that if you are not suitable for 1 job therefore unsuitable for all.
 
My last interview was a 3 step interview. First one was about an hour long, pretty normal. Second interview was a zoom call with like 25 people all shooting questions at a high pace, felt like they were trying to see how I handled pressure.

The last interview I was told to rock up on a Saturday to get my fingerprints done to check for a criminal record. Instead of that I was put in a room with a pc and told to hack a certain ip range. Strange pc, no tooling etc etc was a bit of a mess but 6 hours later I had Domain Admin. You then had to do a report but you could do it before Monday so Sunday was spent writing a report.

Then I only got the job but this is somewhat normal in cyber security.
 
Pho3nix said:
Just finished my first technical interview today since I'm in the process again (now there shall be 2) and I had to do a PR and fix the code provided supervised (on teams, screen shared).
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Went through process. Sent references and numbers.. ghosted. FFS
 
semaphore said:
Hardly, I know a few in the sec space and it’s definitely not the norm. That just sounds piss poorly planned.
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If you are known in the business it's pretty easy to chop and change jobs but for new comers it's pretty hard.

I know of some internships that go on for 3 months where guys spend 16 hours a day working there butt's off just to get kicked out. It's rough.

In cyber security you are almost guaranteed to do some kind of test before getting a job. They need to check your skills or you are dead weight.
 
Scary_Turtle said:
If you are known in the business it's pretty easy to chop and change jobs but for new comers it's pretty hard.

I know of some internships that go on for 3 months where guys spend 16 hours a day working there butt's off just to get kicked out. It's rough.

In cyber security you are almost guaranteed to do some kind of test before getting a job. They need to check your skills or you are dead weight.
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You in the contracting space? Most Sec I've met in corporates are PowerPoint/LinkedIn masters who haven't done any actual security work.
 
Pho3nix said:
You in the contracting space? Most Sec I've met in corporates are PowerPoint/LinkedIn masters who haven't done any actual security work.
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Yeah I am in contracting, love it and couldn't do anything else. Not too sure about other companies but there are some I would not work for and I have my reasons.

I have had to work closely with 100s of security teams, some are insane others don't know how to setup kali vm on their internal network.

So I get your point but if you hire someone with an OSCP or equivalent they should know their stuff or they wouldn't have it. No amount of linkedn mastery can get you that cert but anyone can manage alerts haha.
 
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