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An unpleasant experience. unprofessional. A recruiter called to coordinate: a minute of conversation and said that someone else would call. After a day she called and in a short conversation scheduled an interview with a team leader for an hour and a half. I asked more info' about the interview, requirements and the job itself - she promised that they would get back to me. They didn't come back. At the very beginning of the interview: it was said that it was scheduled for an hour (even though I cleared an hour and a half). I was asked if they explained the position to me: I said they promised to get back to me and did not. There are *13 minutes* left to apply a technical question. I began to think under pressure about a solution and began to implement (in parallel). I said it was not applicable to the time given. Even on a solution I was barely able to think that I was up to it with a stopwatch. Really disrespectful! After a few days I got an automatic email + second email to be filled out anonymously so that they can improve in future interviews.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate in New York, NY

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There was a recruiter call, manager interview where i described a system i worked on previously, pair programming session and then 3 more technical - 2 coding and 1 system design. The interviewers were relatively nice except for one who barely made eye contact and was not really interested in what i had to say from the beginning.

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Long interview process, recruiter is also a bird brain who can’t keep track of candidates for her life. Hiring freeze and made me waste my time. I’ll be sending an invoice for the hours they’ve wasted

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Process took 3+ months – screening interview with recruiter, call with hiring manager, 1st panel interview with 2 leaders, another panel interview with 3 individuals, and a call with the HRBP. The process was dragged out and the final decision process took over 3 weeks. For anyone interviewing for Prisma Cloud roles: The Prisma Cloud team has a lot of attrition, executive departures, and had low quota attainment over the past 12 months. the overlay teams are very different cultures than the roles on the core sales team. Highly recommend doing your due diligence on the role and surrounding team

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  • How would you approach the first 90 days in the role? How do you build a team culture? Why PANW and why are you leaving your last role? How do you work with various teams
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Recruiter call, followed by Basic linux questions and general questions from team lead and at home test containing python and linux challenge followed by panel interview . Scenario based questions as well as technical questions regarding tech support and customer success

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Tested only the skills that are actually relevant to do the job (instead of pure leetcode and general CS fundamentals). Everyone was very humble and open, even distinguished engineer and people from higher ups.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Tel Aviv-Yafo

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Great interview; the questions were suitable for the position and the interviewer didn't rush me. When I got the decline email, the interviewer gave me a feedback that helped me to be more accurate with my answers in my next interviews.

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I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Palo Alto Networks

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Phone call with the company recruiter to hear about the job description and describe my technology stack. Technical phone call for 30 minutes with the team lead. Technical zoom interview for 1.5 hours. Present one maim project, answer technical questions.

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Anonymous Employee in Santa Clara, CA

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Two interviews, 1:1 + 4 panel. Very fair, well rounded questions. They'll make you feel very comfortable, but the process could take months. Overall not a bad experience. Video is required if remote.

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Anonymous Interview Candidate in Tel Aviv-Yafo

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Sporadic place with zero humanity. They approached me, I was not looking. They sent out an email explaining why I am not the right fit. Disgusting as I never even thought about moving to such a bad company. Recruiting processes that are simply ugly.

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Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Palo Alto Networks as 50.2% positive with a difficulty rating score of 2.89 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Service Account Manager and Instructional Designer rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Campaign Manager and AP Specialist roles were rated as the easiest.

The hiring process at Palo Alto Networks takes an average of 31.01 days when considering 540 user submitted interviews across all job titles. Candidates applying for SQA Engineer had the quickest hiring process (on average 1 day), whereas Associate Systems Engineer - Graduate Program roles had the slowest hiring process (on average 360 days).

Common stages of the interview process at Palo Alto Networks according to 540 Glassdoor interviews include:

Phone Interview: 30.24%

One on One Interview: 23.75%

Presentation: 13.76%

Group Panel Interview: 9.73%

Drug Test: 5.35%

Background Check: 5.35%

IQ Intelligence Test: 4.47%

Skills Test: 3.77%

Other: 2.19%

Personality Test: 1.40%

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I interviewed at new company for the same role I currently do, so I have all the skills they need and more. I went through 5 stages of interviews, including pp in person and final 1 was on Friday over week ago. I was expecting to have news by last Friday. No news, so I emailed them last Friday asking for indication when can I expect the results,but we have Tuesday evening today, and no one emailed me back. This is the 1st time I have to wait so long after final interview for news-Should I worry?

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How long to typically hear back from a mid-sized company (200-300 people) after an initial interview? Their internal recruiter told me “a few days” and it’s been a week. Interview went very well (I thought!) Thinking of following up on Thursday if I don’t hear.

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