Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

Palo Alto, CAPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

From the start, this interview experience felt unprofessional and frankly uncomfortable.

I met with an interviewer who came across as critical and apathetic, and instead of genuinely engaging with my qualifications, he repeatedly criticized my tech stack and my career path.

The conversation included personal remarks that questioned my employment stability and the choices I’d made over the past few years. I also got the sense he was distracted; I wasn’t getting much follow-up based on my answers, and the overall engagement didn’t feel constructive.

What made it worse was a clear boundary issue—he switched to speaking to me in Marathi after noticing I spoke the language. I left

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