Candidate Shares Exhausting CTF-Based Hiring Process for Threat Detection Role

A candidate describes their experience during a hiring process for a threat detection and response engineer position. After five interviews, including one with the CISO, the final stage involves a Capture The Flag (CTF) challenge on the HTB Enterprise platform featuring five machines (1 easy, 3 medium, 1 hard). The candidate must write a report for each solved machine and has seven days to complete the task while being able to see other participants. They express their exhaustion due to the workload and the pressure of this competitive assessment.