Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process began after a recruiter screen, and then the rest of the interview chain happened virtually over a few technical rounds.

The first technical round felt like a fairly standard system-design-flavored coding question, then I moved straight into fixing a bug in code. By the time I reached the last round, it had shifted again into something more object-oriented in spirit—modifying an existing codebase rather than starting from scratch.

Even before the coding, I had one earlier interview that was more project-focused than technical drills. I walked through a project in depth and we discussed specific design decisions and trade-offs, plus how I was adopting AI in the kind of work I’d been doing. The conversation

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