Is it hard to get hired as a Capabilities Development Specialist at National Security Agency?

Capabilities Development Specialist applicants have rated the interview process at National Security Agency with 3.7 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 67% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.

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Candidates applying for Capabilities Development Specialist roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 3 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at National Security Agency overall takes an average of 123 days.

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based on 3 ratings - Updated Feb 1, 2024

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Capabilities Development Specialist Interview

Feb 1, 2024

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at National Security Agency

Interview

The interview process was done online using hirevue. There was roughly about 10 questions, ranging from technical questions to questions about yourself. The technical questions did pertain to programming. When answering the questions you have an opportunity to practice before you submit your answer.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

Tell me about a time you faced a challenge?

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Capabilities Development Specialist Interview

Sep 8, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Difficult interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at National Security Agency (Augusta, GA) in Aug 2022

Interview

20 questions, insanely difficult. STAR question with very high technical question. It takes me around a month to get the hirevue interview and a month to get the result back to me.

Interview questions [7]

Question 1

Given an array Sum the array divide 2 if it is even without using division operator or library, multiply 2 without using multiplication operator or library

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Question 2

Given x86 assembly code name the standard library C code

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Question 3

Given memory address table table is like an array n = [4,5,6,7,8] int p = &n int **pp = &n print(p) print((p++)) print(*(pp))

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Question 4

Tell me your experience with kernel mode, user mode

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Question 5

Tell me your experience with radio frequency and using wavelength

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Question 6

You are working with a network, you gain access to root, how do you hack this machine

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Question 7

tell me your experience with rerverse engineer, tell me what tool did you use, what did you do

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Capabilities Development Specialist Interview

Jan 10, 2019

Anonymous employee

Accepted offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at National Security Agency (Fort Meade, MD) in Jan 2019

Interview

Total about 45-50 minutes: 10 minutes behavioral (experience, scenarios), 15-20 minutes with 3 simple technical questions, asked about my familiarity with networks/network terms, then last 10-15 was me asking the interviewer questions.

Interview questions [3]

Question 1

Write a simple function that prints out all factors of a given number n.

2 Answers

Question 2

Syntax and coding errors: Simple function in C with some errors.

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Question 3

Pointer arithmetic question: given a small table of addresses and their values, what are the values of 1) *p, 2) *(p++) and 3) *(p+3) ?

2 Answers

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