Over the years I’ve hired or helped hire hundreds of computer security folks. Although job interviews tend to last an hour, I can usually tell in a few minutes if I’m talking to the right person for the job.
If I think I have the right person, I will lead them into saying the right things to win the job. If I don’t think so, I usually cut the interview short.
What makes or breaks it for them isn’t on their resume — experience and skills are table stakes. It’s the trust that I can throw nearly anything at them and they will get the job done.
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