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henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months agoI’m sorry to hear that. It’s a shame to experience this kind of judgement in tech because many engineers I’ve met are some of the most open-minded people you’ll meet. Yet, there still remains the corporate structures that exploit us all. I’ve always been proud of my organization for not judging people based on paper qualifications. If not for that, I wouldn’t have my current job because I just don’t qualify for it.
I was curious because I wondered if you were more IT, security oriented, software development etc. I managed to get into a very weird tech job because I got recruited even though most of my background is more like test engineering. But, someone with an eye for such things felt I had a lot of potential. What’s your interest in penetration testing? Have you had an interest in offensive work?
alex_02@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I wanted to do red teaming when I was 18/19, but it is so niche that I don’t think I can get my foot in the door, but I’m a hardware nerd and the past several months I have also started looking at overlooked protocols. I do plan on getting into more embedded and designing my own boards. Thing is, hardware is very overlooked which I feel like nobody is taking it serious enough. I still have an interest in the tech industry, but kind of just letting life do its thing and wherever I end up, I end up there.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
If you would like to get a foot in the door, let me know and we can see if it makes sense. I might be able to help you get an interview. It’s kind of late for our internships this summer, but we do have openings periodically, and I think you’d benefit from our engineering-focused interviews. Do you like reverse engineering hardware? Rather, the opposite of design. Discovery.
alex_02@infosec.pub 2 months ago
You mean taking hardware apart or reverse engineering the software/firmware? Been planning on getting into reverse engineering firmware, but I take hardware apart a lot to figure out how they work because most of the time I can build something better and cheaper.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Both. As I’m sure you know, firmware and hardware are intimately related. We tend to do more software, but it depends on the project. I work for a small company, so we have to make do—I don’t think we have any purely software or hardware people.