Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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Tel AvivPosted Nov 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an assignment-style step and then moved into a longer chain of interviews that stretched over several months.

After an early coding submission, I walked through what I’d built and then answered questions aimed at extending the same codebase with additional features. There was also a theoretical question mixed into that discussion, and later I met a higher-level interviewer to go deeper.

What surprised me was how the process felt: those early stages were the most intense, with the overall experience becoming less punishing after I cleared the initial rounds. Even though the steps were sequential and time-consuming, the process felt structured enough that I could tell where I stood at each stage. By

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