I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at RTX (Arlington, VA) in May 2021
Interview
A panel-style interview was conducted, where the applicant must audit some sample source code in front of 7 or so people, all of whom are giving feedback.
It honestly was a mostly ineffective interview, which was unnecessarily unnerving. The vast majority of security researchers in this industry prefer to work and think in quiet, calm settings, not in a group setting where over half a dozen other researchers are shoulder-surfing your work. Dumb.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What vulnerabilities do you see in the sample code?
I applied online. I interviewed at RTX in Sep 2021
Interview
2 rounds
first one be able to explain vulnerabilities and mitigations.
second one find vulnerabilities(different from generic buffer overflow) and also reverse engineer a few small binaries. brush up on ctf style questions
Vulnerability Researcher applicants have rated the interview process at RTX with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 50% positive. To compare, the company-average is 75.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Vulnerability Researcher roles take an average of 30 days to get hired, when considering 2 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at RTX overall takes an average of 29 days.
Common stages of the interview process at RTX as a Vulnerability Researcher according to 2 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 33%
Background check: 17%
Group panel interview: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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