Online Assessment

Software Engineer interview at Palo Alto Networks: interview experience

Palo Alto NetworksSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Jul 2026

I started with an online assessment and then had three virtual technical rounds. The first was a system-design-and-coding-style prompt where I implemented a solution. It soon turned into debugging existing code to fix a bug, with the focus on making the code work under constraints rather than on theory. In the final round, I had to modify the code again in an object-oriented way, changing both it…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.