Bug Bounty vs Full Time Job ??

Hello Folks, In this article, I will explain my opinion and experience on Bug Bounty and Full-Time Job

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Today I will give my opinion and my understanding of Bug Bounty and a Full-time Job !!

Disclaimer: Not against anything just want to spread knowledge across.

As per my understanding, bug bounty is not a form of stable income. Firstly, bug bounty hunting as a full-time job is just not a financially secure profession. It’s a pay-for-performance system that requires you to produce tangible results in exchange for money.

From my personal experience, you can make thousands one month and barely scrape by the next due to variables beyond your control, like all of your submissions being flagged as duplicates, it’s not always down to an inability to find vulnerabilities. Of course, for the great majority of you, this isn’t ideal since you most likely have responsibilities.

And bug bounty is not considered work experience in the industry, as it doesn’t prove your work in documents.

Getting a high paid salary in Cybersecurity is difficult, as I have seen most people don’t have the proper qualification and it is completely different when you work for a company other than the bug bounty.

A full-time job in cybersecurity collectively requires many skills apart from finding unique bugs, such as communication, teamwork, interaction, time management, quick learning, work follow-up, collaboration tasks, etc.. due to this factor many bug bounty hunters are not able to get a high paid salary.

Summary:

Focus on building all the skills along with finding bugs and try to get a good company with a high pay scale.

Spend less time on bug bounty and try to build your profile by learning new technologies which are surrounded by VAPT, Pentest, Android, and other cybersecurity tech stacks and get certified as per the industry requirements such as CEH, OSCP, ISO 27001, etc.. which will definitely help you to get into the specific roles.

Instead of directly joining MNC, work for a start-up that helps to learn many things alongside the specific role, and then join MNC for a long stay and better earnings.

That’s it for this write-up.

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