Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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Tel AvivPosted Sep 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview journey was structured into several back-to-back rounds, and it felt like they were deliberately measuring different dimensions of how I worked.

Technical questions came first, and they were fairly approachable in difficulty but still detailed in scope—things like performance engineering, live analysis from a JFR-style artifact, and walking through how I’d debug a scenario. There was also a coding portion where they expected pseudocode rather than perfect final syntax.

After the technical pieces, I had managerial-style conversations. Those rounds weren’t just “tell me about yourself”—they pushed on how I’d reason about engineering tradeoffs and how I described problem-solving in context. Finally, there was an HR conversation to close

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