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Hello all, I am learning DSA on scalar. My only dream company is Microsoft .for me package and level doesn't matter. Just development role so minimum sde 1. And optional if possible wfh. I have 7 years of experience in DOTNET. I am NOT much confidence in DSA. So I need help and guide and support how can I join Microsoft. Right now possible? as I am already learning DSA and not much salary requirements. So can they take me as sde 1. Any view and guidance help to impossible to possible.
in general, how many of your colleagues are fit?
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Just passed CISSP in December, took CISA in 2016. I hardly studied for the CISA after working in IT audit for a year, maybe a month of half hour a day of doing practice questions. CISSP is considerably harder. I got my masters in Cybersecurity in a program that boasted about grads passing the CISSP at a higher percentage than average and then spent 3 months reading 2 study books (All In One and the official Sybex book) and doing practice questions half hour ish a day and I still got questions on the test about things I'd never heard of and thought I failed until they handed me the paper that said I passed. I highly recommend the Cybrary lecture series to get a high level overview of the topics. As they say in those lectures the test is a mile long but an inch deep. Be prepared to spend a lot of time studying a lot of topics but don't dive deep into each topic.
I have both. CISSP is a multi-month endeavor. The questions are a lot more memorization and applying that memorization onto a scenario (does that make sense? You gotta know the TCP/IP layers but also need to know how they function when faced with a networking scenario) so there's a lot more understanding that has to occur. I got through it with 4 years of security experience. 6 months of studying (15min/day, 5 hours every weekend).