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      Senior Systems Security Analyst Interview

      Dec 17, 2012
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Bloomberg in Dec 2012

      Interview

      HR replied with a poorly-formatted template email to arrange my phone screen date and time (my first and last names were reverse, with a comma separating them); Just to confirm it wasn't some kind of spam, I called the HR person named in the email who initially didn't know who I was, then looked at his email and figured it out, and repeated the request in the email template. He sounded rather out of it, and I thought perhaps he was hungover. A week later, my phone screen was scheduled. The interviewer was friendly if not outgoing, and explained very briefly the details of the position. There were many legacy components that needed support, particularly with regard to authentication, and he confided that his team and several others often had conflicts over responsibility for certain roles, such as maintaining certificate authorities, issuing certificates, and other credential-related roles. After we discussed some of the technical questions, we spoke also briefly about general computer- and network-security related things. A week later, HR sent another template email with a rejection.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Describe how an SSH session is initiated (at the SSH application level, not the network level).
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      Question 2

      In general, how does Kerberos work for two systems that don't otherwise trust each other but need to access/deliver a service?
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      Question 3

      What is or are the general differences in trust between PKI and Kerberos?
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      Question 4

      If a system is compromised, how woud you diagnose it?
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      Question 5

      Which common linux tools would you use to check and monitor network behavior for a system or collection of systems and how do they work?
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