Novacoast Interview Questions
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Novacoast
Security Analyst
Entry Average Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Phone screen Presentation
Interview formats
Technical Presentation Behavioral
It was a 2 step process. First a phone screening, then I had to do a presentation of findings from a pcap file and answer some theoretical questions on basic cybersecurity principles and some behavioural questions too.
Confirmed questions1 question
- How can you distinguish between a private and public IP address?
Novacoast
Intern
Intern Average Positive experience Accept offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Offer
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
So I applied for the internship about a year ago or even more, after dropping my resume at an info session at UCSB. Then like 2-3 weeks later, I got an email for an interview. It was pretty chill, mostly behavioral questions and stuff from my resume, so definitely know your resume inside out. It was a pretty easy first interview. Another 2-3 weeks later, I think, they emailed me again for a second interview, this time it was a technical one about a LAMP stack server. That was pretty straightforward too. After finishing the second interview, they offered me the internship.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- Can you describe a Linux command?
- Tell me about your resume.
- Can you tell me about a time when...?
Novacoast
Software Engineer Intern
Intern Average Neutral experience No offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical Coding
Got contacted by a recruiter within 2 weeks of meeting them at a career fair. Had an in-person interview a few days later with a Software Engineer and the VP of Development. We started by chatting about what I knew about the company and my goals. Then we talked about my resume and projects. The technical part involved a sheet of paper with different code snippets. I had to explain what each one did. The problems covered things like important unix files (fstab), an unfamiliar database query, and a SQL join. It was pretty random stuff all on one page. I didn't know most of it and couldn't really comment specifically, which I think was where I went wrong.
Confirmed questions6 questions
- Can you elaborate on your understanding of the company and your career aspirations?
- Can you tell me about your resume and the projects you've worked on?
- Can you explain the functionality of the provided code snippets?
Novacoast
Software Engineer
Entry Easy Positive experience Decline offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Technical Behavioral Coding
Met some cool people at the UCSB career fair and at a talk they gave. They reached out within a few weeks. The interview was at their office in DT. I talked with the Dev VP and another employee. They had a list of questions about various technologies. My advice is don't freak out if you don't know everything on it; I barely knew half of it. They really want to see how you think through stuff you don't know. I asked for help when I got stuck and they were helpful. The interview was pretty quick. We started with me talking about myself, then I showed a project I'd been working on, and then we did the quiz. It wasn't super technical.
Confirmed questions1 question
- Could you parse this XML code for me?
Novacoast Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Novacoast interview reports.
“What's the difference between TCP and UDP?”
Read reports →“How can you distinguish between a private and public IP address?”
Read reports →“Can you write a function to reverse a string of any length?”
Read reports →“Could you describe the purpose and usage of fstab?”
Read reports →“How would you install Wordpress within a LAMP stack server?”
Read report →“Can you explain the difference between TCP and UDP?”
Read report →“What does the script do?”
Read report →“Could you parse this XML code for me?”
Read report →“Tell me why manholes are round.”
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