Security Engineer Interview Questions

4,886 security engineer interview questions shared by candidates

They talked a lot about culture and how important it was and asked how culture plays a role in previous positions. They also asked about long term goals and aspirations, and asked about your areas of passion. They really seemed focused on finding the right person, not just a person that fits the job description.
avatar

Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Interviewed at ITSC Secure Solutions

4.2
Apr 23, 2021

They talked a lot about culture and how important it was and asked how culture plays a role in previous positions. They also asked about long term goals and aspirations, and asked about your areas of passion. They really seemed focused on finding the right person, not just a person that fits the job description.

1st Technical round will be more towards your basic vulnerabilities related to Access control, oauth, SAML etc and there mitigations. (Need to show them things practically). 2nd round will be more about your approach and methodology, tools and techniques. APIs and Mobile Security, (again get ready for practical). Asked about the patches of the vulnerabilities without the help of firewall (WAF). 3rd round will be more towards your cloud security skills. You must have knowledge about the cloud services, and micro services and about their vulnerabilities. Few mixed questions from Active Directory, DevSecOps, Automation, and Language based questions. Few questions were from the post data breach and how to deal with the post data breach etc.
avatar

Product Security Engineer

Interviewed at Cure.Fit

3.7
Oct 2, 2022

1st Technical round will be more towards your basic vulnerabilities related to Access control, oauth, SAML etc and there mitigations. (Need to show them things practically). 2nd round will be more about your approach and methodology, tools and techniques. APIs and Mobile Security, (again get ready for practical). Asked about the patches of the vulnerabilities without the help of firewall (WAF). 3rd round will be more towards your cloud security skills. You must have knowledge about the cloud services, and micro services and about their vulnerabilities. Few mixed questions from Active Directory, DevSecOps, Automation, and Language based questions. Few questions were from the post data breach and how to deal with the post data breach etc.

Viewing 4111 - 4120 interview questions

Glassdoor has 4,886 interview questions and reports from Security engineer interviews. Prepare for your interview. Get hired. Love your job.