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Round: Resume Shortlist Experience: Normal selection via resume for Test. Being a Mathematics student, my resume was a bit "academic". Tips: Be thorough with your resume. I had a more "academic" resume. So was asked at 95% of the interviews "Why are you here, you should go for PhD". High CPI is not required for job, but a respectable one is required.
Round: Test Experience: This test was mainly to check your linux skills, as the Job profile required a skilled linux guy with scripting ability. It had 2 sections, one was with normal questions and one with slightly difficult. It had questions about flags in different shell commands. Tips: Be good with linux. I am Ubuntu user, so I was good with shell and scripting. If you are a windows user, I would highly recommend to install cygwin and practice linux scripting. Duration: 60mins minutes Total Questions: 50
Round: Test Experience: Speed Math was easy for me, but was stuck with few apti questions. Practice them. Cannot say anything about personality test. Just be yourself. Tips: Speed math requires practice. You can practice at traderstest.org. Medium to easy level will be sufficient.
Round: Technical Interview Experience: Interviewer was fun. At the end we were discussing which beer brand is the best. (He was from UK) Tips: Brush up your network security and linux skills. This profile requires Network security. There were few other questions which I cannot remember.
Round: Technical Interview Experience: He was fun, he made me real comfy and I was able to think clearly while answering. He was laughing when I was answering how to root server. He said he wasn't expecting a math student to answer this question. I also told about my experience in online CTF and that I am a metasploit fan. Tips: Interest in network security is a plus.
Skill Tips: Interest in network security and constant learning Skills: Common Sense, Network Security, GNU/LINUX College Name: IIT Bombay Motivation: Being a linux geek, and network security enthusiast, this was the perfect job I could think of. Funny Moments: Interviewer : Irrespective of job profile, since we are mainly in 3 places, NY, Amsterdam and Singapore, where would you like to join. Me : Amsterdam Interviewer : Why ? Me : Sir you know the reasons.