Candidates applying for Senior Backend Engineer roles take an average of 7 days 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 Senior Backend Engineer according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 29%
One on one interview: 29%
Skills test: 29%
Group panel interview: 14%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Oct 2024
Interview
You have a 30-minute interview with two parts:
First Part: Project Discussion and Your Role
In this section, you’ll briefly introduce a project you worked on in your last job. Focus on:
Project Overview: Provide a short description of the project, including its goals, technologies, and impact.
Your Role and Responsibilities: Elaborate on your specific contributions. Explain the main responsibilities you had, such as design, implementation, or problem-solving. Highlight any key achievements, challenges you faced, and how you addressed them.
Second Part: Coding Challenge – Shuffle an Array
In this section, you’ll be asked to code a solution for shuffling an array using any language you prefer. One commonly used method is the Fisher-Yates Shuffle Algorithm. It is efficient and produces an unbiased shuffle.
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Aug 2024
Interview
The interview was conducted with a team leader and a team member. The initial task was a leetcode hard question that i later saw that it is present in leetcode as premium hard question.
First thing is to show on a blackboard how you would solve it, and afterwards programming it in real-time in front of them.
The second part was to design the system they develop themselves as if i was the designer.
The process took an hour and a half and included many questions regarding my solutions to their problems.
At the end there was time for asking them questions about the position.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A hard leetcode question which included graph theory and topological sorting to solve. First pseudo code and then real time programming to validate the solution works.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks in Jul 2024
Interview
call from HR and then first round 1 hour technical interview.
the interviewer only asked one question. no time to questions or discussion. just solve the technical question.
medium question in any language you prefer. (trees)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
save relations between nodes and then print the tree.