u/ConsciousPriority108

Hello,

Just received an offer from ManTech for government contract work. They are the incumbent and currently in the process to recompete the contract. They told me the result will come out near the end of gov year and would like me to join the team to assist with the current contract. I am just worry about the risk and go back to the bench + breaking lease. Have anybody have any experience in this situation? Should i keep looking or just commit with it. ​

Just read chapter 55, this man did nothing wrong.

I have an upcoming interview 90 minutes with boeing. Anybody have any idea what to prep for this? Leetcode? STAR?

I am seeing increase in number of people asking same question over and over. You are not going to get into this field like that without proper training, education, and experience. You need to do further research about the topic and area you want to focus in. For example if you interested in GRC. You should go college get a degree in information system or a business degree in IT. Apply for job such as IT auditor, Risk Advisory at a consulting firm, and get your CISA. If you interested in SOC, it is best start IT help desk or system admin iob and study course and cert like BTL1/CCDC. You need hand-on not some crap from Security+, build lab, make blog, do write-up. YOU GET THE POINT. You can also join millitary or the air force to get security clearance then work in IT project.

Thing you should do while in College:

Join local cyber security club to compete in ccdc or cptc

Build homelab and cyber on the side

Networking with local company that target your school. There are many companies out there hosting hiring event at local university

Apply for school help desk role

Do undergraduate research

Seek for an internship or apprenticeship

Do not take shortcut you wont make it. As much I hate to say it, having a degree boost your chance of landing an interview, but outside work related to the role boost the interviewer confident you could pass the interview​.

I have sit in the hiring panel, and almost everybody we bringing in have related experience. Unless we hire an intern, but out of 1000 people we only pick 1.

Cyber is a huge field. Do you think a GRC person can pass Reverse engineering interview?? hell no, same way other around. YOU NEED CONCENTRATION EARLY.

Is this normal? It used to be fast, did they change the process? Like was I early batch. I used to work for them and offer came in the week after. Keep hope up or naw. I am trying to come back 😭

I am waiting for the result. They said it will come out today.

I dont mind OT once in a while but they demand unpaid OT every week. I worked in cyber security field, yes they pay me good money, the job on call. However I signed up for on call to handle incident not fixing bug. Only here for 3 months, I was one man security in the company. I ran the scan and found 2k vulnerabilities. They gave me a tight deadline 1 month to fix all of them, and set me up for failure, demand weekend work. I fixed 500 but that would consider as below expectation. Manager was trying to pip me and I said fk no, just layoff me. They layoff me the next day. Smh Jesus fking christ. Is this normal in Tech company? not to mention they were trying to commit cyber fraud and send the report to the client. 🤦

This is my first WFH in tech. Not sure if this was normal or not. I was hired in one thing but they got some issue, deadline got pull from 6 months to 1 month. So I am here one man IT department to save their project. Now manager and lead are expecting me work to dead with constant unpaid OT. Including pulling extra hour on saturday and sunday. I am already feeling the burn out and want to quit. Coworkers does not know what they are doing, their submission keep getting kick back from the Client. Nobody is reading the manual or follow the procedure 😭😭. Company has unlimited pto but like how are you pto with this. Pay is great thou. I am not getting along with my co worker since I pointed out their mistake on their work. ​ im only here for two months btw

I am currently working in a company. They have a lot of security issues in their system right now. not follow the A&A manual... Client complained nons top... Most likely going to fail the ATO process that is for sure. My assumption is everybody is going to get layoff or they give us an extension. Can't find anything news about company fail ATO or terminate contract over ATO. I have never been into this situation so, I am just curious.