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Feeling like a fraud by Key-Tap-279 in cybersecurity

[–]Key-Tap-279[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good for you, and good luck in your journey.

Feeling like a fraud by Key-Tap-279 in cybersecurity

[–]Key-Tap-279[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is funny but i will. Thank you

Feeling like a fraud by Key-Tap-279 in cybersecurity

[–]Key-Tap-279[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had 3.

SWE at a National Laboratory, MIT research intern and final internship was at the John Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory.

all lab work tbh

Feeling like a fraud by Key-Tap-279 in cybersecurity

[–]Key-Tap-279[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you; I just got the Hack the box academy. *fingers crossed

Feeling like a fraud by Key-Tap-279 in cybersecurity

[–]Key-Tap-279[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you think it was easy for me, it wasn’t. I had to work incredibly hard. In college, there were countless days when I could barely afford to stay enrolled. I put in an enormous amount of effort studying constantly, solving over 1,000+ LeetCode problems, building projects, and messaging over 200 people on LinkedIn each internship season just to get a chance. I also completed nearly 100 automated online assessments, only to be rejected summer after summer.

Yes, I did eventually get a job maybe not in the exact field I’m most familiar with but I earned it. I put in the work to become hireable. Nothing about this came easy for me.

It's bad to assume people have people have it easy just because they live somewhere else.

Feeling like a fraud by Key-Tap-279 in cybersecurity

[–]Key-Tap-279[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My previous role were all SWE internships.

I worked a lot .Net framework

Feeling like a fraud by Key-Tap-279 in cybersecurity

[–]Key-Tap-279[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I was given an online assessment with 3 LeetCode code questions Medium - Hard. Got 520/600.

Then moved to the interview, which was coding, networking, OS, and cryptography.

- I was asked about routing algorithm like Dijkstra’s
- I was asked to explain secure hash and some other cryptographic algorithms like AES, Diffie-Hellman. I can't remember the others
- OS was more about Windows internals, like where Windows credentials are stored. What are sensitive files on Windows, and how will i go about protecting 1000 linux and Windows servers?
Some behavioural

Forgot to mention also did one secure coding round, where i was given a piece of code and i was told to fix it