Palo Alto Networks Backend Engineer interview experience

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Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Oct 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview ended up feeling tightly scoped and very practical.

After the recruiter stage, I had a 30-minute session with two parts. First, I introduced a project I’d worked on recently—just enough detail to cover the goals, the technologies involved, and what impact it had. Then I talked through my specific contributions: what I designed or implemented, how I solved the core problems, and what challenges came up along the way.

The second half was a coding exercise right after that discussion: shuffle an array. I coded the solution in the language I preferred, and the interviewer expected an unbiased shuffle approach, typically like Fisher–Yates. The

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