The original post: /r/cybersecurity by /u/waltfrombb on 2024-11-09 18:43:34.
Please let me know if it's okay to post this here! I'm really nervous and stressed. I'm very bad at my time management, especially when studying because I hate studying. I have an upcoming phone interview on Tuesday for a Security Engineering role with Amazon. I had 5 full days off last week and I only studied around 20-25 hours in total and I took notes about some cybersecurity topics that I felt was relevant to my role and what the recruiter mentioned. This week, I had the past 3 days off. Took a little bit more notes that I probably could have finished in a day. In total now, I have about 30 pages of notes. Note taking is rough and super boring, but now I'm looking at other things I needed to study from the job description as well, and I'm scared that I don't have time left for other stuff. I have a total of 30 pages of notes on some security-related topics (I feel like these would have been better for me to do for the loop?? This is literally only a one hour phone interview and I put like 25 hours into these other notes). I have to still study for secure code review (which I suck at) and some compliance documents. The recruiter also said I need to study pentesting and app testing. On top of this, I need to refine+practice my stories for the leadership principles (I have 10-12 stories written down that I wanted to rehearse. There are 6 leadership principles that I just couldn't think of a story for).
I feel like there's not enough time to do everything. I need to revise my notes on top of this too. I only have the next 2 days essentially. I'm scared. I also don't know if there will be coding (the recruiter mentioned secure code review but not sure if the interviewer will ask me to code/script something. The job description mentions secure code review but doesn't mention any other programming or specify any programming languages. My resume does have Python listed so I feel like I need to look over that just in case). Any advice?? I'm freaking out. This would have been such a good opportunity for me and I feel like I ruined it