Recruiter screen → Hiring manager interview → Technical round 1 (60 min live coding): if you know OOP, it'll be mildly challenging, but you'll be fine—no FAANG-like Leetcode BS needed (but definitely helps to have firm grasp of DSA) → Technical round 2 (60 min grilling over vuln research methodology/offsec/exploitation/computing internals): this is hard, and intentionally so. They go deep. A mix of extremely specific questions with only one right answer and broadly open-ended questions. → Decision

4 step interview 1st non-technical 2nd technical, had to hack into one of their machines and write it up step by step. They cared a lot about the write-up part of it 3rd manager 4 other manager