Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

After that, the interviewer moved through different core subjects and asked me questions tied to each area.

What caught me off guard was how basic some of the questions were meant to be, like they were testing whether I was comfortable enough to answer without panicking. The questions weren’t tricky in the sense of deep trick logic; they were the kind you’re supposed to know well enough that you can keep your composure and explain your reasoning.

Overall it felt like an average difficulty loop: lots of probing across fundamentals and project context rather than one big “design something