I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at IBM (San Jose, San Jose) in Jan 2017
Interview
All the questions were based off of the CompTIA Sec + exam, if you study that, you will pass the technical interview easily, there were of course questions about personality, but those are the ones that every company asks, so you can prepare for them as well. The most difficult part is that at some point you have to take a logic test from home, which is difficult, not sure if they actually care if you pass it or not. Questions like: if a train leaves a 5am at 30km/h and the other at 5:13am at 93km/h, at what time will they meet?... that type of questions, insane!
Interviewers have a series of questions on identifying alerts, triaging them and propose mitigations strategy and the your reasons. They also briefed about the structure of their SOC team, its setup and culture.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is this alert and what will you do when you see this?
I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at IBM (Greenwich, England) in June 2025
Interview
The interview process is a structured series of steps used by an organization to evaluate and select the most suitable candidate for a job role. It typically begins when a position becomes available and ends when an offer is made to the chosen applicant. The goal of the interview process is to assess a candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and cultural fit while ensuring fairness, consistency, and transparency.
2 stage process. Friendly team. Interview was more of a conversational chat to put candidate at ease with technical scenarios. Straightforward questions which made the whole process seem engaging and was a 2 way conversation. Not just bombarded with questions
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