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      Offensive Security Engineer Interview

      5 May 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Halborn in Mar 2025

      Interview

      ABSURD, DISGUSTING, STAY AWAY! I wish I had seen the reviews here before spending any time on their non-sense. Received an email with a link to a VM. The VM was a type of Hack-The-Box/CTF challenge where I had to find as many flags as possible. Spent over 5 hours to fix the VM, because of issues with the IP assignment. Over 10 hours to find the flags. Another 8 hours to complete the report. Got all the flags and conducted a 20+ page report. Accidentally sent the report to the wrong email, no response. Figured it out two days later and send it to the correct address. No response. Followed up with another email, just to make sure of my report being received, no response. Followed up with another email to the original challenge email sender, and now I keep getting a notification of the email not existing. That person might have left the company (cannot blame them). Followed-up once again, and THEY DID RESPOND - of course not, just kidding! Not sure what small companies like these think, except of boosting their ego with paid awards of BeSt PlAcE tO wOrK, which obviously is the opposite from reality, taking into account how they treat potential candidates, as me and as others here. I wasted my time, thank you, I will know not to consider you ever again. (Browse online, you will find the solutions you are looking for, if you are here for that ;) )

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Solve the CTF challenge and get the flags
      Answer question

      Other Offensive Security Engineer interview reviews for Halborn

      Offensive Security Engineer Interview

      29 July 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Amsterdam
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied in-person. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Halborn (Amsterdam) in Mar 2024

      Interview

      Applied, got an automated email with a CTF VM, and 2 weeks to solve it, after a week I solved it, made my write-up and submitted the challenge. Got no reply at all. E-mailed them again after 2 weeks, still no reply. It sucks to have worked on a good writeup and a CTF challenge and get ghosted.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Got sent a VM which I had to host locally and try to hack into.
      Answer question
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