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yigh
Jan 3, 2021

SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE posted:

Does anyone work in AppSec? Is it interesting enough to do in the medium-long term?

I currently do offensive security but miss the feeling of building things from when I was an SWE. I'm also beginning to feel the grind of spending 25% of my time compiling and peer reviewing reports, but that's just consultancy things.

Know a friend doing this for 5+ years at a FAANG with good pay and career growth. Grueling work though as technical knowhow / depth is higher (my perception) than other engineers at same company / job title. Nature of problem space is adversarial so you'll randomly get escalations when new attack/vulnerability is detected. If you can grow your team big enough, the front line people eventually take the brunt of the interrupts.

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