Ask HN: How did you get started in Network Security/Penetration Testing?
I can tell you how not to do it. I'll never forget the funniest interview I ever had. I interviewed with this company called Deja vu Security.<p><a href="http://www.dejavusecurity.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dejavusecurity.com/</a><p>I explicitly told them, via email, I have ZERO experience pen testing, or anything related to hacking. I'm a terrific software engineer looking to pivot into this market, would take a salary cut to get my feet wet and be mentored. Would this be possible? Are you guys remotely interested in an arrangement like this?<p>They say great, when can we sync up? That's definitely something we can do.<p>So we set a call up and the call takes literally 39 seconds, I'll never forget it. He asked me what experience I had, and I reply: None whatsoever, like I mentioned in my email I'm interested in jumping into this line of work though.<p>"Thanks but we're not going to move forward."<p>Before I can even say thank you for your time, goodbye, the dude just hangs up the phone on me lol.