My journey to Synack Red Team

As I’ve just accomplished one of my all time goals, becoming a Synack Red Team member, I’m going to narrate my journey into this world, as it was a hell of a ride.

SRT Joining Process

As I stated in my previous article, after finishing the SRT track on Hack The Box I got a fast track to bypass the waiting list. I was almost 100% sure they wouldn’t take in consideration my application because I didn’t had a bright CV neither experience in Bug Bounties, but nevertheless I decided to apply.

After three months, much to my disbelief, I got an email informing me that I had been selected to proceed with the technical assessment which consisted in several web, host and mobile challenges. I was given a week to try and complete them. I ended up getting a 87% score with only having the mobile challenge incomplete, as I don’t have experience with it.

The next step in the process was a one-way interview (I didn’t even know it existed). You get some questions video recorded for you, and then you have to record yourself answering that questions. Depending on the complexity of the question more time is given to answer it but not much more, tho.