Hi, I have an interview with Facebook for the Application Security Engineer role. It has a coding round, and I would love some inputs as to what kind of questions Facebook asks for this role. I haven’t coded in a while and have 3 weeks to prepare. For people who have gone through the interview process, please let me know what kind of questions I should prepare for this and other similar roles. Any help from the community would be greatly appreciated. PS - I have LC premium, I have been asked to prepare medium/hard questions by the recruiter, and I am most comfortable with C++. #securityindustryspecialists #securityengineer #facebook #interview
They ask easy to low-mediums of LC questions. Source: I have spoken to folks who gave AppSec Engineering interviews at FB and the recruiter that I spoke also mentioned it. Choice of language doesn't matter. Do you know which team you are interviewing with? Did they tell you how much of your work will involve code reviews and fixing bugs? Are you going build/maintain any security tools? The evaluation of your coding round will depend on the team and what they are working on.
PSAA (Product Securtity Assessment and Analysis) Team. The recruiter mentioned both code reviews and automation as part of the role.
Good luck! Let us know how it went...
Ask the recruiter .. if s/he said there will be a coding round then it will be a LC question or two .. usually medium but can be hard. scripting/non LC questions are usually called other names (in domain/system coding) but coding rounds are standard for all roles. but the recruiters will tell you everything they can if you ask, they are your friends and want you to get the job
They are easy or medium. The LC tags for FB are right on.
Makes sense. Thank you!
what would be domain specific security questions in the interview comprise of ?
What did you say when they asked where your strengths lie- Web security , Mobile Security or Native code?
They didn’t ask this.
have you gone through System Design round yet?
No, not yet.
How’s it going?
How did your screen go? Can you please share, I will be going through the same interviews in coming week.
I have the interview next week. I’ll let you know.
Can you share your experience
is this onsite or phone screen for next week ?
Phone screen
all the best . are you already an application security engineer in the current role ?
How was the interview? And can you share the questions?
Doubt they’ll ask LC questions. Be prepared for more scripting or automation type questions
Scripting like shell scripts.