NASA

“Covered the basics: malicious scripts injected into trusted sites, runs in the victim's browser, can steal session cookies or redirect users.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic question but I still fumbled the ordering a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent story for this but rambled a bit trying to explain the technical steps to a non-technical user.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with DNS resolution and worked my way through TCP handshake, TLS negotiation, HTTP request and response, rendering.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I knew what EDR killers were conceptually but stumbled a bit connecting it to a concrete investigation flow in Sentinel specifically.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I blanked for a second because I had like five answers and couldn't pick one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with auth logs and worked outward, endpoint telemetry, network flow data, threat intel feeds, maybe identity provider logs if it's SSO.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Knew this one cold.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Ran through the usual signals: sender address mismatches, suspicious links, urgency language, unexpected attachments.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard for any security role.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at NASA, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.