Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

That round was straightforward in format: introduction, a coding task, a review of what I wrote, and time for questions. After that, I expected the hiring manager stage to feel like a continuation of the same thread, but the experience became inconsistent for me.

In one part of the process, the conversations didn’t map neatly onto a pure software engineering track—some of the people I spoke with were framed more as security experts, which changed the lens of the questions I was getting. Separately, the later stages turned into a bigger time commitment than I expected: there were multiple