SWE Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Palo Alto Networks with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 75% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for SWE Intern roles take an average of 1 day to get hired, when considering 4 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 SWE Intern according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 50%
Group panel interview: 25%
Phone interview: 25%
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very easy and asked both technical and behavior questions, as well as a coding question. The coding question was to implement a binary search algorithm. the technical was focused on understanding how computers work.
I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Santa Clara, CA)
Interview
Not bad, everyone was nice! I was unsure what to expect for the interview process. But the recruiting team gave us a brief run down which was helpful. It’s the basic leetcode and system design
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell about a time you collaborated with at team member to get something done.
Straight forward and good interviewer. Only asked me 2 medium-ish leetcode style problems, I could not get the last one so teh interviewer helped me through it on just a minor part.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell us about a previous project you are proud of.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Santa Clara, CA) in Nov 2024
Interview
2 lc easy-medium questions and one debugging question, had enough time but they did ask a lot of follow ups and about edge cases, so make sure to really know the limitations of your code