Flags

Red Flags

  • Won’t fly you out.
  • They don’t buy you lunch when you interview there.
  • Complete desperation.
  • Any hints that the security team doesn’t get along with another team.
  • If you’re interviewing to be an Infrastructure Security Engineer and nobody else does InfraSec, who are you supposed to learn from and discuss things with?
  • Even one jerk.
  • Having more than 1 person interview you at the same time.
  • Stupid coding interview, e.g. clearly made up on the spot.
  • Being asked the same thing by multiple different people.
  • When you have to keep yourself from Well Actually’ing.
  • Won’t let you write code your preferred language.
  • Not only does a person not know it’s your final interview or what title you’re interviewing for, but they then say “better impress me then”.
  • After trying to answer a question you ask, what more were you looking for? And they say, “I’m not the one being interviewed.”

Yellow Flags

  • Asks “What is the difference between HTTPS and SSL?”
  • Asks “What protocol does DNS use?”
  • Asks “Is closed or open source software more secure?”
  • Doesn’t pay money in their bug bounty.
  • They don’t look at your work-sample test before your in-person.

Green Flags

  • Reference check of the manager comes back extremely good. They are the person who will have the biggest impact on your happiness.