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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      11 Feb 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Sunnyvale, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Sunnyvale, CA) in Feb 2015

      Interview

      Recruiter reached me on linked in and setup a phone interview with hiring manager. The phone interview was easy, mostly my background and prev projects. The main open ended question was, if you received a uC board and it was not working, walk through all the steps to debug, HW and SW, how you would debug UART They invited me for 4 hours of onsite interview next, with 5 people and one person from HR. The interviews were intense and all technical. All interviewers were polite and professional. Since I signed a paper I cannot provide exact questions. First interview, lots of C programming questions, mostly pointers, structs Second: I was given a datasheet of an I2C device and I was questioned how the device works and how to use it, write API… Third: lots and lots of C programming, strings, memory management, you should be pro in C to get all the answers, and some basic networking questions, router vs switch, VLAN Forth: with the manager, create a specific malloc function Fifth: doubly linked list, insertion, deletion, search, implementation in C, the interviewer did not know what is double pointer and where to use it!! Some of question about linux, kernel, mutex and semaphores Finally an HR person The reason I am giving a negative rating to this interview is that they never contacted me after onsite interview

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      mutex and semaphores
      Answer question
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      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      12 Jul 2025
      Anonymous interview candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 6 days. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks in May 2025

      Interview

      Recruiter(Me'shel Babish) reached out on an online application. Spoke a lot and gave her cell phone number. Arranged a call with hiring manager. Asked to call to update after the interview. It went good. He concluded that he will work with the recruiter to arrange the next round. The recruiter just ghosted without any update. For whatever reason they decided not to move forward recruiters not having professional courtesy is not a good sign of culture.
      1

      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      19 Nov 2024
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Tel Aviv-Yafo
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo)

      Interview

      Very nice team lead. Described the company and the product. Then some architecture questions. Then one technical question: shuffling an array, then optimization for that algorithm. The experience was nice.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Q: shuffle an array, then implement optimization
      Answer question
      1

      Staff Software Engineer Interview

      13 Sept 2024
      Anonymous employee
      Accepted offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks

      Interview

      Interviewed with the hiring manager and several members of the team. Most members I ended up interviewing with did not have a Software Engineering position, and were instead Security Experts.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Walk us through a system that you have designed/built in the past and explain the technical choices you made.
      Answer question

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