Any active AWS security folks willing to give a peak about life on the AWS sec team? I'm interviewing soon for a mid role that I'm not 100% committed to. What is environment like, constant fires and politics? Did anything actually change after the NYT thing? Do you have any work life balance? For context I'm not the hurt feelings, crying at work type.
I’m a security guy, not AWS though. I’ve noticed Blind skews heavily younger run of the mill developer. It’s possible no one from the AWS security team is even here or very few at least. Keep in mind only a fraction of engineering at any company are security engineers, so a MUCH smaller pool to begin with.
Yeah, frankly I'm surprised at how immature the security space is in general and how small teams are. I'm trying to figure out if most people are mostly firefighting or if they have some normalcy
Have ya taken the interview yet? I’m thinking of applying to the prod security role at aws as well..
Any updates OP?
Any updates? What role were you applying to?
I applied to a mid/sr security role at AWS. No offer. The recruiter gave no real feedback except that they liked talking to me and to get some more experience and try again. As far as I can tell I didn't have enough past experience in the specific tech they were looking for and so came off as too junior.
A tip going forward would be to fill out any missing work experience with personal projects in whatever the latest stacks are. Oh and ignore the recruiter and do some leet code. I got a buff overflow, automation, regex, app architecture, and a heap/ tree balancing problem in pesdo code, js, python and c for an interview the recruiter said would have light if any coding questions.
Im planning to apply for Engineer 3 position, let me see how it goes!
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man. just crickets. so people only like tc discussions here?