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Backend Software Developer Interview

Jul 9, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Tel Aviv-Yafo

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Backend Developer Interview

Aug 2, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Declined offer

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Backend Software Developer Interview

Jul 9, 2022

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Other Backend Software Developer Interview Reviews for Palo Alto Networks

Backend Developer Interview

Aug 2, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Declined offer

No offer

Neutral experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jul 2022

Interview

HR call Codility Team leader & senior teammate Questions in the meeting : Binary tree complexity what is Transaction Process vs thread what is stack over flow stack memory VS heap memory what is immutable object

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Question 1

what is git rebase what is git merge

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Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Apr 2025

Interview

1 - Tell me about yourself. 2 - They told me about the group I was interviewing to. 3 - They asked me to describe a backend feature / project that I worked on. 4 - We've had a ping-pong question/answer discussion about the project I described previously.

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Question 1

1 - They asked me about rate-limiting in microservices system. 2 - They asked me about failures between microservices and monolith. 3 - They asked me about load balancing.

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Backend Developer Interview

Feb 18, 2025

Anonymous Interview Candidate

Tel Aviv-Yafo

No offer

Positive experience

Average interview

Application

I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Jan 2025

Interview

Preparing for a phone interview covering architecture, features you've developed, and challenges involves focusing on several key areas. First, be ready to discuss the technologies you've worked with, such as Java, Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka, and AWS, and explain how you've applied architectural principles like microservices, monolithic designs, or event-driven systems. Highlight your experience with scalability, performance optimization, security measures, and ensuring system availability.

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Question 1

Be ready to describe the architecture of systems you've worked on, including: Tech stack: Languages, frameworks, databases, cloud services (e.g., Java, Spring Boot, Redis, Kafka, AWS, etc.). System design principles: Microservices, monolith, event-driven, etc. Scalability & performance: How you handled load, caching strategies, and optimizations. Security: Authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection. Reliability & availability: HA (High Availability), failover mechanisms, monitoring/logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).

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Backend Developer Interview

Jun 27, 2024

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Average interview

Application

I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks

Interview

Asked to design their product which they work on for several years in a one hour interview. They bombard with questions inticipating the candidate to have all the answers. Not a very clever way to interview.

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Question 1

Design a corporate browser that we'll have to be updated with policy

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