Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

The day felt organized: there were multiple cohorts running in parallel, and I ended up in a room with about thirty candidates. We were given a laptop to work on, and I had a bit of extra hardware available if I needed it. The assessment itself was compact but intense—three questions total, two in the easy-to-medium range and one that was medium-to-hard—and I had about 90 minutes to get through everything.

A few stages later, I moved into interviews that focused more directly on practical engineering. One round was on the coding side but also very discussion-heavy: I wrote code and talked