Palo Alto Networks Qa Engineer Interview Questions
& Process
Real candidates share what happened, how many rounds they had,
and how the experience turned out.
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Candidate interview experiences
First-hand accounts from people who interviewed at Palo Alto Networks.
Palo Alto Networks
QA Engineer
Entry Average Negative experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Behavioral Technical
First there was an HR interview and then the manager's interview. The managers seemed exhausted during the interview process. After she joined she showed how tired she was and spoke as if she didn't care and was just there to sit. How did these people even get their jobs?????????
Confirmed questions1 question
- What was your last project and can you describe some technical aspects of it?
Palo Alto Networks
Senior Quality Engineer
Senior Average Positive experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Technical screen Onsite
Interview formats
Coding System Design
The interview process was fair. It started with an initial HackerRank round with a LeetCode question that was hard to crack. HR had good responses, but I couldn't crack the system design round.
Confirmed questions6 questions
- Retrieve all posts for an active user using the GET /public-api/users/<userid>/posts endpoint.
- If a post has no comments, add a comment using the GET /public-api/posts/<postid>/comments endpoint.
- For arr1 and arr2, calculate the sum of elements at indices divisible by 3. If the sums match, return True; otherwise, modify the arrays by swapping elements to achieve equivalent sums and return False.
Palo Alto Networks
Software QA Engineer
Mid Average Neutral experience No offer 2 rounds
Interview process
Recruiter call Technical screen
Interview formats
Technical Coding Other
The process was pretty fast. I got quick responses from the recruiter on my emails. They followed a standard interview structure. The first stage was entirely technical. They asked me to write some code and then write test cases for the code I wrote. All interviewers used this exact same approach. Even though it was for the wildfire team, the questions were more suited for a QA-ops role. I was surprised that there weren't any questions related to actual threat analysis.
Confirmed questions8 questions
- Can you write the logic to sort a list without using built-in methods?
- If a string like "aaabbccccddaaeeeee" is provided to a function, can you print it as "a3b2c4a2e5"?
- Have you ever implemented RabbitMQ?
Palo Alto Networks Qa Engineer Interview Questions
Quoted word for word from Palo Alto Networks interview reports.
“Given a list of numbers and an integer, can you return True if the sum of any two elements in the list matches the integer?”
Read reports →“What is the most efficient way to search for an md5sum?”
Read reports →“Write a program to determine the validity of an IP address.”
Read reports →“What is the difference between HTTP PUT and POST methods?”
Read reports →“What is the difference between NAT-PAT and firewall-ALG?”
Read report →“If a string like "aaabbccccddaaeeeee" is provided to a function, can you print it as "a3b2c4a2e5"?”
Read report →“Create a program to generate 500 IP addresses within a given Network address.”
Read report →“What's the difference between Active vs Passive FTP when using NAT?”
Read report →“Given a very large file, can you return the word that occurs most frequently?”
Read report →Formats, difficulty and experience
Across all 13 Palo Alto Networks interview reports.