Palo Alto Networks Systems Engineer interview experience

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Munich, BavariaPosted Jan 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey leaned strongly toward technical depth, especially in networking and security fundamentals.

I had several interviews that were mostly technical, with fewer behavioral questions than I expected, and the bar was “solid knowledge” more than anything clever.

The topics stayed tightly connected to real protocol behavior. I remember discussing areas like how the TCP handshake works and how TLS operates, and broader security subjects like UTM came up as well. Even when the questions were described as valid and relevant, they still expected a level of fluency—things like DNS, TCP/UDP basics, and how the pieces fit together weren’t asked lightly. It felt like the process was testing whether

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