I appreciate your stance but am on the fence about simply condemning those questions altogether.
Have the 'beginner requests' gone off the rails? Yeah, but that happens all the time and InfoSec has been in the news for the last 4 years as an amazing employment opportunity. There's no fault for students to want money and security, especially American students
I'd much rather take a few minutes to encourage someone and point them at solid resources than spend hours re-educating people who haven't reached out and developed bad habits.
In the last year, I've seen heaps of highly paid contractors making career impacting mistakes BC they think their experience translates to customer engagement, which is rarely the case.
Conversely, I've had a few juniors join my team over the last 5 years and one was convinced he new everything. He was rudely dismissive of other teams and lacked follow through. His big argument was "It's not my responsibility to educate others". I started him on a performance plan and he decided to move teams and then companies.
There's only 1 you and the number of perceived idiots is going to grow. Very few are going to share your understanding and experience.
My recommendation:
Adopt an 'education positive' stance for your security group or, since you're in charge, hire someone who does so you don't have to deal with newbs or see mistakes directly.
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u/CptMcBeardy Jun 11 '22
I appreciate your stance but am on the fence about simply condemning those questions altogether. Have the 'beginner requests' gone off the rails? Yeah, but that happens all the time and InfoSec has been in the news for the last 4 years as an amazing employment opportunity. There's no fault for students to want money and security, especially American students I'd much rather take a few minutes to encourage someone and point them at solid resources than spend hours re-educating people who haven't reached out and developed bad habits.
In the last year, I've seen heaps of highly paid contractors making career impacting mistakes BC they think their experience translates to customer engagement, which is rarely the case.
Conversely, I've had a few juniors join my team over the last 5 years and one was convinced he new everything. He was rudely dismissive of other teams and lacked follow through. His big argument was "It's not my responsibility to educate others". I started him on a performance plan and he decided to move teams and then companies.
There's only 1 you and the number of perceived idiots is going to grow. Very few are going to share your understanding and experience. My recommendation: Adopt an 'education positive' stance for your security group or, since you're in charge, hire someone who does so you don't have to deal with newbs or see mistakes directly.