[anon_dev_123456]

I can tell you how not to do it. I'll never forget the funniest interview I ever had. I interviewed with this company called Deja vu Security.

http://www.dejavusecurity.com/

I explicitly told them, via email, I have ZERO experience pen testing, or anything related to hacking. I'm a terrific software engineer looking to pivot into this market, would take a salary cut to get my feet wet and be mentored. Would this be possible? Are you guys remotely interested in an arrangement like this?

They say great, when can we sync up? That's definitely something we can do.

So we set a call up and the call takes literally 39 seconds, I'll never forget it. He asked me what experience I had, and I reply: None whatsoever, like I mentioned in my email I'm interested in jumping into this line of work though.

"Thanks but we're not going to move forward."

Before I can even say thank you for your time, goodbye, the dude just hangs up the phone on me lol.

[bitexploder]

We have a hiring process for folks with no infosec experience. It isn't easy, but it works. The guys at Deja are solid and consulting makes for busy folks, so don't hold a low opinion of them. Probably did not pay close enough attention to the initial email.

If you are interested shoot careers at carvesystems dot com an email.

[adamdeja]

Hey anon_dev_123456, This is Adam Cecchetti CEO of Deja vu Security. Over the last 2 years Deja has spent a lot of time refining our hiring processes, but occasionally an experience like this does slip through the cracks. We are always looking for candidates that are smart individuals, interested in security, and can code, any security experience is of course a plus. If you reach out to my email adam at dejavusecurity dot com I'd be happy to discuss what happened with your call and any other feedback you'd be willing to share.

Thanks, Adam

[brightball]

Communications breakdowns like that are funny. I remember communicating with a recruiter one time years ago that I'd be happy to do a part time contract to fill a need that I had a lot of experience with. He calls me up and immediately starts talking salary and full time so I had to re-explain everything that was in the email conversation as if he'd never seen it.

[abledon]

Damn, I love their Blender render homepage