Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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Santa Clara, CAPosted Sep 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and the whole process took about two weeks.

I ended up doing two online assessments—Codility and HireVue—before I ever got on a call with a recruiter. Looking back, the scheduling pace felt quick, but the preparation side felt oddly unclear because I wasn’t given enough detail about what each stage would look like.

After the assessments, there was a recruiter screen that was also behavioral and included logistics, but I wasn’t informed ahead of time that it would be behavioral. The recruiter call then led into an onsite with three rounds of technical interviews that all had behavioral components blended in. Even the first onsite round

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