I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at ReliaQuest (Tampa, FL) in Jan 2022
Interview
3 week-long interview process. All went very well until the final interview. The final interviewers did not value my passion for cyber security nor excitement towards working with the company. The interviewers proceeded to ask three curveball technical interview questions that were not included in the provided study material. I understand that final interviews are supposed to be there to weed out the weak, but i feel that a recruiter should not point you in the wrong direction, maybe try to help the candidate acquire the position instead. The recruiter gave me false hope by sending relocation package information all for the final interviewers to flunk me based on my "internet connection." What is interesting is that they do a technical interview before the final interview, yet still resort back to asking technical interview questions in the final interview.... Weird.. Why even have a technical interview in the first place if the vetting will only happen after you get your hopes up and waste more time.
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