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Re:Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying? by anonym29 on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:41PM (#34499369)
Satisfying enough. Corporate red team at a big tech company, so I spend most days hacking first-party / internally developed software at said big tech company - usually developing exploits / PoC for novel vulnerabilities. But also sometimes longer engagements, including physical / SE at times. My favorite so far has been a long engagement where my team surreptitiously embedded ourselves into a build pipeline for a major tech product that goes out to 40m+ consumers, and added an innocuous flag to the source at build time as proof, starting from a physical break-in scenario without using our badges to enter the building.

The worst part of the job by far is drafting and editing reports. This sometimes goes on for several days.

I like it primarily because I get all the excitement of being a nation-state level adversary / threat actor / "bad guy", with none of the legal/moral/ethical risks/harms - my work ultimately contributes towards making our products (and thus our consumers) safer from such threats.

Re:Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying? by Mandatum on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:02AM (#34499520)
alex?
Re:Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying? by sshine on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:18AM (#34499670)
mom?
Re:Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying? by leke on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @12:50AM (#34499891)
papa?
Re:Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying? by generated on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:40AM (#34500215)
Nah Alex doesn't use that many slashes as an alternative to grammar.
Re:Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying? by anonym29 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:56AM (#34504319)
No, sorry.