Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Palo Alto Networks with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 47% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineer roles take an average of 19 days to get hired, when considering 73 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Palo Alto Networks overall takes an average of 31 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Palo Alto Networks as a Software Engineer according to 73 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 18%
Group panel interview: 8%
Background check: 5%
Personality test: 5%
Presentation: 5%
Other: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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The worst interview experience that I have ever had in my entire life. I have interviewed from small scale startups to Faang companies. I can easily differentiate between a good interviewer and a bad interviewer. When I interviewed for a Software Engineer position. A hiring manager (Lady) interviewed me and half of the interview was totally on machine learning and neural networks. I clearly mentioned I am only interested in software engineering roles and the position itself is a software engineering role. She kept on asking me questions on machine learning. And the worst part comes when I was asked to code out a problem (An Array), I was not given a choice to choose a programing language that i am most comfortable with, However they wanted me to only code on the language they wanted. This is the most dumbest thing that I ever saw, Any interviewer with common sense would look out for the analytical thinking and problem solving skills in a candidate, not how good is writing the syntax of some programming language, I mean its just syntax that he need to be perfect. Infact somehow i was able to finish the code and run it succesfully. however i took lot of time to correct the stupid syntax and I believe they judged me on basis of that. WORST WORST TRASHY interview experience. I will never join or advice my friends to join a firm which hires people who are good in remembering syntax instead of hiring people with good problem skills and brains. Infact i am happy that i got rejected
I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo)
Interview
Interview was good, the interviewers were very professional and asked good questions, though they were a bit impatient and seems like they had a tight schedule. Overall I think it was pretty good.
very smooth process, they have a help session to talk about interview process and how you can prepare also warning not to use AI etc. it was very informational and helped ease the nerves quite a bit.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
asked me how i had a problem with an employer and solved it
Telling about myself and asking questions to an interviewer, telling about the job I worked at recently.
In addition, there were coding and architecture questions.
Overall the interview was average, the people were nice and it was a good experience.