I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at RSA Security (Caïro, ) in Apr 2022
Interview
I received a phone call in February, the HR asked me to about the below:
-Brief introduction about myself in English,
-Expected Salary, current salary
-Notice Period
Then I received another phone call to schedule a technical interview in April.
After 3 days from the technical interview,
I received a call telling me that I passed the first interview, and we scheduled an interview with the managers, the interview with the managers was non technical, they asked about on call, irregular hours shifts, about my previous job.
Lastly, they said they will call with a feedback within 3 weeks, but I didn't receive a call at all.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I got asked the following questions on the technical part:
The interview was in Arabic, no introductions straight to the technical questions about 3 topics Networking, Security and Linux
Networking questions:
-OSI layers, their functions and their PDUs
-Router and switch difference
-Stateful and stateless firewalls
-Vlans and intervlan routing
-NAT
-Switch operations
Security:
CIA
AAA
MFA
Risk and vulnerability difference
Difference between pin testing and vulnerability scan
Assymetric keys
IPsec key negotiation
Difference between encryption and Hashing
Http response codes
Linux:
Basic commands >> ls, top, netstat, df, du, mkdir, touch, vim, systemctl, links, yum, rpm, passwd, how to reset root password without passwd
Questions about file system >> etc directory,
Questions about storage in Linux and I was asked about raid types as well
masked services
fstab
Linux disk systems
gpt and nbr partition tables
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at RSA Security
Interview
3 rounds of interview, 2 technical and 1 hr,
No aptitude. It was easy. It was a campus drive.
Completed within one day. Technical rounds were easy, asked some search algorithm questions also some network related questions
The interview was short and to the point the 1st is a phone discussion with the HR then a technical and managerial interviews in one slot both.
The HR was just a discussion about my experience and education. The technical interview was some question in linux and security.