I applied through an employee referral, and a recruiter reached out to me in a few days. The first round was with HR to go over the role. The second was a phone screen with an easy string coding problem. Next was an on-site panel interview with four more rounds: three technical and one behavioral. All three technical rounds were not LeetCode-style and focused on JSON processing, test framework design, and tests for pseudocode, etc.
Detect loops in a graph.
Flatten nested JSON.
General JSON parsing.
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Palo Alto Networks Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) role in Santa Clara, California.
Palo Alto Networks's interview process for their Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) roles in Santa Clara, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Palo Alto Networks's Senior Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) interview process in Santa Clara, California.