I have an on site coming up at Snap for a Software/Security Engineering role. The recruiter mentioned that one round will be “security fundamentals”, and another will be “a system design round on security (threat modeling)”. There will also be two coding rounds, but I’m familiar with those. I’m not really sure what to expect for the two non-coding rounds. For security fundamentals, should I expect an hour of trivia/general knowledge questions? Like different types of cryptography, signing vs hashing vs encoding, explain TLS, how would you hack into x system etc.? For the system design round I imagine a lot of general security fundamentals studying will pay off, in addition to watching threat modeling videos and reading OWASP articles. But should I also be prepared as if this were a regular SWE system design round? I’ve never done a system design round before, and I’m hesitant to budget a large amount of time on grokking the system design interview etc, since I already need to do so much coding and security studying. I have about 3 weeks until the interview for reference. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! YOE: 3 TC: 210K
How was the interview?
They ended up giving the position to someone else before I got the chance for my onsite, so I didn’t get to interview
Did you manage to find any information regarding the coding interview for this security engineer position? I guess the difficulty should have been lower than the corresponding SWE interview.
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Try to cover this: https://github.com/tadwhitaker/Security_Engineer_Interview_Questions/blob/master/security-interview-questions.md Read about Microsoft STRIDE model, look for several example architectures in which they did threat modeling using this model... The interview process in sec is very vague but hope these will make you ready for the interview
Thank you! Like I was saying before, there’s already so much to cover in security alone. Do you think I should also review general system design topics?