Palo Alto Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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IndiaPosted Sep 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with interviews that were meant to test more than just coding, but what really stood out to me was how the later parts shifted into more interpersonal and context-heavy questions.

In one round, the interviewer wanted to compare their compensation expectations to my current situation, digging into what I was making and what I expected for total compensation.

Before that, the technical side had a surprisingly heavy focus on core fundamentals. I got asked memory- and complexity-related questions like how arrays store elements, how memory allocation works, and what explains the typical performance of indexed access. I also ran into a conceptual question around what a “bit” represents.

Even though the interviewer interactions were intense, I kept going through the middle

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