Junior Software Engineer 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 53% positive. To compare, the company-average is 48.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Junior Software Engineer roles take an average of 15 days to get hired, when considering 19 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 Junior Software Engineer according to 19 Glassdoor interviews include:
Skills test: 30%
Phone interview: 22%
One on one interview: 19%
Group panel interview: 15%
Background check: 7%
Presentation: 4%
Personality test: 4%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Dec 2020
Interview
I applied for the Junior Software Engineer position in the XSOAR team. I was contacted by HR and given three days to complete a home task before my technical interview. Several weeks after the interview, I was told over the phone that the company would be progressing with other candidates.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Home Task (Three days to complete, submit ahead of interview): Write a Python method that receives a file hash, makes a GET request to a specific VirusTotal endpoint, and outputs the scan results as a string formatted in Markdown
Modify home task code:
- Write a Python script that takes system arguments (from the terminal/command prompt) and calls the main scanner method
- Order the results alphabetically according to the name of the scanner and show the number of days since the file has last been scanned by this scanner
I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo)
Interview
Test with 3 different question in 90 mintues , 1 a question on strings, the 2nd on intervals and the third one , I wasn't left with enough time so I used naive solution that was inefficient.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of strings ,return a list of lidts of string anagrams.
I applied online. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jun 2026
Interview
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.
I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo)
Interview
Leet code style testing. Mostly string and arrays questions and dynamic programming questions. Needed to bring your own laptop and they sent a link with the questions. There were many juniors tested that day
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Dynamic programming question- number of cars that can cross bridge without exceeding the maximum weight. When a driver turns back, all drivers behind him move one position closer. Need to find the min number of drivers that will need to turn back