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Absolutely. I always thought that if you can find multiple 0days, you are good enough to land into any senior developer position in a few weeks. Is that not th
by nopriorarrests 8y ago
Absolutely. I always thought that if you can find multiple 0days, you are good enough to land into any senior developer position in a few weeks. Is that not the case? And why? To me, being able to find 0days was always synonymous with "broad knowledge" + "out of the box thinking".
- kuschku 8y agoBeing transgender makes getting hired much harder, or often impossible. Some people that held a senior position in major companies before transition ended up as cashier or in similar jobs afterwards.
- EvangelicalPig 8y agoThat's a unfortunate state of affairs.
- 0x00000000 8y agoBeing good at reverse engineering, analysis, and programming are almost completely orthogonal to being able to implement 5 variations of search algorithms from memory on a whiteboard in syntactically correct code.
- rhexs 8y agoI always found that while I could probably spend 6-8 months studying to try to land a job at one of the big tech companies to do RE/security research/malware analysis or whatever you want related to that, I usually got more interested in reverse engineering something new and quickly got bored reviewing the details of binary search trees. Limits jobs at the big 4/5 as nearly every job that involves security research/RE will inevitably still have the standard leetcode algorithms whiteboard interview, but there's plenty of other stuff out there if you're willing to put together a decent portfolio. The few exceptions to that are being so famous you can make it to recognized teams, but that isn't a realistic goal for most engineers. If there's a company you really, really want to work for, you can responsibly disclose something to them and at least get an in-person. Skip the phone algorithms test and go right to the whiteboard! Heck yeah.