Palo Alto Networks·Software Engineer·Onsite - Multi Round
Aug 2026
Heading into an onsite at Palo Alto Networks after clearing two prior rounds, covering system design and coding. The main thing on my mind going in was the AI policy, they said I could bring any IDE with AI assistance and I genuinely had no idea how far I was supposed to take that.
- When the interviewer says you can use any IDE with AI assistance during the coding round, how much are you actually expected to rely on it?
“This was less a question I got asked and more a question I was asking myself the night before.”