Orca Security Interview Questions
& Process
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and how the experience turned out.
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Orca Security
Customer Success Manager
Mid Average Positive experience Accept offer 1 round
Interview process
Recruiter call
Interview formats
Behavioral
The recruiter reached out, and my experience was really positive. The whole thing wrapped up in a bit less than a month because of the Christmas holiday. They actually gave me feedback after each step, and they were super quick to get back to me. I also liked that I got to chat with people from different teams and my potential colleagues.
Confirmed questions2 questions
- What's your level of comfort with Cloud technology?
- Tell me about a time you had to handle a challenging customer and how you managed to resolve it.
Orca Security
Cloud Security Detection Analyst
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 4 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Take home Offer
Interview formats
Technical Coding
So after I sent in my resume, they sent me a take-home test with three questions. I finished it up and passed, so then they set me up for a technical interview. It went great, I felt like I nailed it. Then I waited two weeks and they called to say there was an organizational change and a new manager wanted to change the role quite a bit. Suddenly it required experience, which it didn't before. They gave me another take-home task, which I also worked hard on. But I didn't pass this one. Honestly, it was a really bad and disrespectful experience. I talked to some recruitment people and they agreed this is super unprofessional. I don't need a disrespectful workplace. Thanks Orca Security.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- The first question required extensive online research to correctly adjust computer permissions.
- For the second question, I had to fix bugs found in a bash script.
- The third question asked me to provide descriptions for three bash scripts.
Orca Security
Backend Engineer
Mid Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen
Interview formats
Coding Technical
the interview process was alright, and the interviewers were just fine. they were looking for pseudo-code, but then they'd claim your code wasn't good enough when they rejected you, which is completely untrue. if you check other reviews, you'll see there's something strange about how this company recruits. they used to give out vouchers for finishing home assignments, and then they started offering them alongside the assignments. thanks for the ice cream, but it doesn't excuse your terrible interviewing methods.
Confirmed questions3 questions
- A mid-level coding challenge was part of the take-home assignment.
- The home assignment also included a question about working with an API.
- The first technical interview featured a data structure problem.
Orca Security
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Average Negative experience No offer 3 rounds
Interview process
Take home Technical screen Recruiter call
Interview formats
Coding System Design
A third-party recruiter contacted me. First, there was a take-home task where I had to build a basic API service, which took about 3-8 hours depending on how I set up the environment since they didn't provide runtime details. The recruiter said it went well and I advanced. Next, a 2-hour coding and system design interview. It involved a straightforward coding problem and a medium-difficulty system design for a chat app, assuming knowledge of a specific web stack. The interviewers were not very interactive, so it was hard to ask questions or discuss ideas. I think I did okay since I was invited to the next stage. Finally, an interview with the Hiring Manager and Team Lead, which was the complete opposite of the previous one – very open and conversational about the project and role. It's been over three weeks now with no response to my follow-ups, so I assume I've been ghosted.
Confirmed questions4 questions
- Take-Home task to implement a simple API service.
- Perform a simple coding task and design a chat system.
- Perform a simple coding task.
Orca Security Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Orca Security interview reports.
“Find the minimum sum of bias differences in a list.”
Read reports →“Explain the constraint that virtual machines with the same tag cannot access each other unless a firewall rule explicitly allows it.”
Read reports →“Write code to determine the count of strings.”
Read reports →“What information should the /stats endpoint return, and how should it be formatted?”
Read reports →“What is the structure of a firewall rule, including fw_id, source_tag, and dest_tag?”
Read report →“For a given list of integers, can you provide a list containing the sums of the factors for each integer, ensuring the solution is optimized for time constraints?”
Read report →“How should the /attack endpoint function, including its input and output?”
Read report →“What is the structure of the JSON that describes the cloud environment, including its VMs and firewall rules?”
Read report →“Given a JSON describing a customer's cloud environment with VMs and firewall rules, which other VMs can attack a specific target VM?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 44 Orca Security interview reports.