How to Fail a Cybersecurity Interview
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Want to win the cybersecurity interview? Learn how to fail first. In a recent interview with Stephen Semmelroth, he shared excellent advice on helping cyber professionals ace their job interviews. In this video, we recap some key takeaways but flipped to reasons why people fail.
Some of the reasons why include:
- Not conveying a deep and broad understanding of the cyber domain when answering technical questions.
- Not demonstrating passion and self-learning abilities through projects outside of work.
- Not aligning and contextualizing your application to the job description and company needs.
- Poor audiovisuals and personal optics for a virtual interview
- Social faux pas and basic etiquette.
- Insufficient due diligence about a company
Preparation doesn't necessarily mean doing everything right. More often than not, it's avoiding mistakes. Knowing what to avoid during your preparation helps you avoid mistakes.
Be prepared. Learn how to fail a cybersecurity interview.
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00:00 Intro - How to Fail a Cybersecurity Interview
00:37 Not being able to answer the "DNS Question"
02:10 Not having an active side project
03:24 Getting filtered out before the interview
05:19 Failing because of Quiet, Clothes, Camera
06:17 Not doing your due diligence on the company
08:20 Personality and Decency Issues
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What are some other ways you know of to fail a cybersecurity interview?
Interview: what are the challenges of being Cybersecuritist or Ethical Hacker?
Me : Asshole people from society pressurize and expect us to hack Insta and FB for no reason and expect us to solve their personal problem.
@@purushothamsharma6517 😅
Showing that you run windows 95 in 2021 and that you use legacy code to solve modern problems. not caring about making PHP readable. saying your dream is to live in sillicon valley when the company is located elsewhere. talking about how you "hacked" your ex in order to find out if they are cheating. the nightmare and cringe can go on and on. most embarrassing thing I ever did was get too drunk at a convention off of wine and having to pee everytime they jumpstarted a new conversation on things like IOT devices and then puking outside on my way out... the wine was free, at the time I just took avantage of it and paid for it by waking up with a head ache and nothing gained from attending. DON'T BE YOUNGER ME. lol
@@robertcrier3551 Legendary
Interviewer: -"Why do you wanna work here?"
Me: -"Well I'm educated in cyber-security, I have no job, and I need money."
Interviewer: -"What is it about our company that excites you?"
Me: -"You have a job opening that requires someone educated in cyber-security!"
How's that working out for you?
@@Cyberspatial I mean, he is true we choose a career to have money and job, only the hyper rich or lucky get the luxury of doing something that excites you for a company, for most it's just a means to an end. Paying bills to do things that really excite us or be able to have the dream job of not having to work for money or needing a job now that's a dream
A friend who is one of the world's best classical pianists of his generation, came that close to the finals of the Chopin competition, which would have skyrocketed his career. And his total performance score was actually higher than two of the finalists. But the judges also vote a basic "thumbs up/down" on advancing to the finals, and he got too many downs. In the candidate interviews, when asked why he entered the Chopin competition, he said "To get more concerts." All the other pianists answered "Because Chopin is the universal language of the human spirit" or whatever--which isn't actually b.s., it's actually true--but Alex just gave a blunt, honest answer. I'm sure his b.s. deficit is the only reason he didn't advance to the finals. So the lesson is 'work on your b.s.!' "'Money talks and b.s. walks" is not always true.
@@bassmaiasa1312 This is a great lesson, sometimes the blunt answer isn't the best one to give, but I think there's another side to this. If he genuinely wanted to get more concerts, I think he was right for saying that. I hope we can live in a world where we can be honest and authentic. As you said, this had no bearing on his talent or performance, and there is no harm in being authentic. On the other hand, what if we encourage people to make up a b.s. reason they want a job because it sounds more appealing? When they become managers does that mean they will lie to their employees by creating false pretexts for their goals? Will political, religious, or cultural leaders do the same? And without authenticity, will we form real human connections or ever feel like ourselves, or will we just feel like a shell that houses a false identity? I believe the best way to answer an interview question is authentically. Of course, this opinion gets me into trouble because that's not the "correct" answer, which I find both frustrating for me and sad for society.
... I have to be able to explain input methods with USB peripherals to answer that DNS resolves hostnames? Why is it that interviews are so convoluted? 99% of my job in the tech industry so far has been taking these long winded answers and simplifying it to one sentence. It just seems so unnecessary.
I want more videos Cyberspatial. We love and respect your work.
Working on them!
100% agreed
I was literally on the phone with HR and she was asking questioning, there was three stages, (1) HR questioning, (2) The team will look the if i have good resume, (3) the actual interview, i passed the HR but did not have enough college credits since this is was my first semester in college ever. By the way, this was a internship offer ar Cerner, this does not i am going to stop doing what i like, i was not even mad because i didn't fail or anything i just didn't had enough hours of credit, don't let rejection stop from your dream or goals
Keep working! Again, try to get an internal referral or cold call someone on the security team in the organization. Offer to do work for free on the side to build up a rapport and reputation.
Gosh! The content on this channel is pure gold !! Subscribed right away
Glad to have you here!
This just makes me want to clean toilets, lol.
Knock yourself out, then
Really complex, but helpful videos, thank you.
I've got a big interview for an internship later today. I watched the full interview earlier this week and just watched this. Thanks for the advice! I'm a lot more confident and comfortable having done research on the company's culture and business practices as I can make them relate to talking points about work I've done in the past.
Good luck!
Did they ever ask the URL question?
So how did it go?
Wow this was intense
These videos are so well produced and thorough! Thank you for your work. I've been considering a career/degree in Cybersecurity and found your content to be amazingly informative. Can't believe I found this channel before it hit 100k subs.
Glad to have you aboard!
Most of the points you spoke apply for any job profile interview, not specific to cybersecurity except the DNS one of course
Holy cow I needed this exactly!!!
You're welcome!
Talked in CH today w you. Thanks for your thoughts on cyber YT channels . Appreciate it and great work w cyber spatial. Very inspiring.
For sure, stay in touch!
What exactly is a maker space and could provide an example? Thank you 🙏
I am now scared. It is sooooooooo Harsh, I am a student on the first year of the cyber security course.
exactly what i need
Awesome video as usual.
Can you make a separate video about how to answer a dns question?
Like how you would answer.
I have an interview in a couple of weeks and I am pretty sure this question would show up.
Thanks
Perhaps, but probably not in time for your interview, unfortunately!
Answering literally everything that happens with a 0 & 1 from clicking a keyboard to whatever happens on the other end of the internet would literally take books. I once tried to explain what happens to make a Twitch stream and it took me like 10 pages to get 5% of the way there.
great advice 👏🏻
Perfect thank you
Enjoy!
Really Informative
Thank You!
Great Content! Thankyou!
Welcome!
Super quality channel, subscribed.
I must at least partially disagree with 'social networks are the best filtering systems'. I understand this is human nature, and it may seem logical at a glance, but there are many aspects I feel not being examined which may not make it the universal 'best'.
Many data points used to reinforce this philosophy are either circular in nature, eg: "Employee referrals have the highest applicant to hire conversion rate". Even some more substantial metrics such as retention or reduced days of initial training (which, sure, is logical given likely very similar field), still do not measure true or long term job performance. (if someone can link some studies on that, I'd be happy to read!) Speaking from years of direct experience, I've seen more than my share of 'floaters' who have connections, are familiar with a field and can fit right in, floating, in respective organizations. Heavy referral hire also creates a huge feedback loop, monoculturing every aspect of the firm, reducing diversity in all aspects.
I do not discount the value of ERP's, but it is taken too far: the 'front door' almost doesn't even exist anymore. This under capitalizes on otherwise perfectly qualified and long-term/macro beneficial candidates. So if the hiring manager's job is to simply fill the job as quickly and cheaply and 'just-ok' as possible (which it is), then by all means continue with the ERP bias.
Omg this is so great!
Thank You!
@@Cyberspatial no problem keep up the great content
I like to see Cyber and Joshua Fluke duke it out, would be cool.
The title is the only reason why I clicked the video
Thanks for watching!
Epic!
Thanks!
All I want is to work in my filed on expertise, why do they have to make it so hard???
I don't really get that DNS part. Unless this is some shibboleth question I don't know about, explaining how DNS works in this scenario isn't wrong and certainly isn't "trivia". I will gladly start by explaining how transistors and logic gates work and work my way up to 5G network slices if we have 4 hours to spare, but my first instinct here would also be to talk about the DNS.
If the interviewer wants to probe my knowledge in other areas, they should ask follow-up questions, not say "you missed 90% of the question". That's just rude and unhelpful. Or at least indicate in the question, that you want to hear an entire 7-semester CS curriculum in a nutshell.
I think he maybe meant less of an in-depth answer and more of a "simple person"-explanation that you would give more like a concept to - lets say- management. In that role you are a translator as well, and most of the time that will be tested as well as your in-depth knowledge later on. Almost anybody can chuck out a few keywords, but showing your knowledge by explaining a difficult technical concept in end-user language is worth a lot.
I fully agree, DNS question was just weird. If you want a specific answer, then ask better questions, and that's it.
Not sure what country all of this is referring to, but it gives me a lot of "beg us for a job"-vibes as well as dem "work for us even in your free time and call it hobby"-vibes. Sounds very murican. Not what i am experiencing working as a system engineer where i live (middle europe) luckily. Also i didn't know that i'll need to visit a therapist and that i am a bad person in general because i like to swear at times.
HR very often consists of so much bullshit and schematic questions, it literally can come down to them not liking your nose so you don't "fit in the team". Also depending on the situation honesty is off the table if you reeeally wanna get the job. If someone asks you something like "honestly, what were some of your mistakes in the past", you better not give them an honest answer. They want to hire perfect people that basically have no quirks or mistakes so thats what you have to be for that interview.
Usually when i am asked stupid standard questions i'll ask them back: do you want a standard answer to a standard question or a real answer to a real question ? I'm too old (36) for these games people play and i prefer to tell that straight to their faces. If they still wanna move forward we are going to be working very well together. Filtering goes both ways.
Hi man the title tho lol🤣🤣
I just love you
Thanks!
Not sure if I should go into cybersecurity because if there's a lot of coding in it I don't want it!
Barely any coding. Also don’t make a decision based off fear
Yeah I understand , coding is boring.
If you want get the job, be so good that you can't be forgotten.
So true!
In that case you're better off starting your own company; be the company that can't be forgotten
You really want that job once you’re that good?
Iron shapes the iron
Indeed!
Sorry dude, I already have that skill.
Wtf XD HOW TO FAIL
Or how to not fail
Same difference 😆
@@Cyberspatial XD