Palo Alto Networks Backend Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

Tel Aviv-YafoPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interview prep and experience centered heavily on phone discussion topics around architecture.

We covered things like features I’d developed and the kinds of challenges I’d faced, with a focus on the technologies I’d worked with such as Java, Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka, and AWS.

We also talked through architectural concepts like microservices versus monolithic designs and event-driven systems, and then shifted into scalability, performance optimization, security measures, and keeping systems available.

I didn’t get an offer. The reflection I have is that the conversation was much more about how I explain system-level thinking than about coding on a whiteboard, and that format demanded

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