Palo Alto Networks Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

IsraelPosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a recruiter call, then I had an introduction interview with a team lead, and after that a technical interview.

Everyone was friendly, which made the experience feel calmer than I expected.

The technical part was the part that threw me off. The question itself felt a bit confusing to me, and it took me too long to get to a clear answer. Even though the interviewers were nice, I felt like my timing hurt me more than my technical knowledge did.

I didn’t end up getting an offer. Looking back, the biggest factor wasn’t the difficulty level—it was that I struggled to interpret what they were asking, and I didn’t recover my pace in time.

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