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Senior Software Engineer Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California

May 1, 2023
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process was straightforward. The first round was with the hiring manager, followed by on-site or full-day Zoom interviews.

Unfortunately, the recruiter never bothered to call and explain what to expect in the interviews, even though the role required NLP expertise.

After three weeks of radio silence post the first round, they set up an on-site interview for the next two days without explaining the process. The interviewers were not interested in understanding if you were a good fit; they went straight to HackerRank questions. They even asked bad ML textbook questions.

After the interviews, I never heard back from them.

Questions

LC medium Hackerrank question on solving string equations with a single variable "y".

ML - Textbook questions on ML fundamentals, beam search, implement KNN (someone should show them Chip's lecture on how the questions are bad ML questions).

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Palo Alto Networks Senior Software Engineer role in Palo Alto, California.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Palo Alto Networks's interview process for their Senior Software Engineer roles in Palo Alto, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Palo Alto Networks's Senior Software Engineer interview process in Palo Alto, California.