Pros
- Work in multiple SIEM environments (Though this is apt to change soon) - Competative pay - Benefits are good - Outings
Cons
There are multiple issues this company is currently facing on the inside, but let us speak on one that is a pull for fresh-out-of-college employees. Training. The ReliaQuest website does a great job of showing that the company valuese employees intelligence and will continuously push to train and educate employees. This is just not true. The month-long training consists of a week of "culture" training, which feels like a brain-wash session. Do they really think they can change a person's entire work ethic and morallity in a week of training? They will try. Now, the most aggrevating thing is the tech training that occurs, well doesn't occur, after this culture session. The training itself is the most basic possible and boils down to moving around in the SIEM. If you expect to learn high-level search techniques and tactics, this is not going to happen. The system used for training is commonly broken and there is little understanding from the instructors what the correct answer should look like. Most of the time you are struggling to understand if what you did was correct or not. The "attacks" you are monitoring and completely bogus and no effort is made to make the scenario realistic. I believe they have a script generating random traffic and attacks that is constantly being noisier than any real attacker would. The instructors themselves will continuously ask you to "Google" to find the answers to questions, and I believe this is because most do not know the answers, especially the ones that conducted the culture training. I could speak on multiple issues, but this one aggrevates me the most, since I took this job on the good faith that I would consistantly learn new techniques for analysis. Just know if you take the job, the training system is a complete joke.
