Palo Alto Networks Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Test will be in hacker rank there would be a difficulty level between easy to medium

Q1. Question will be from data structure and easy to medium level of the programming laanguage question
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Q1. This is just to check your english ability
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Q1. Basic Java Question
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Q2. Spring Boot related questions
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Q1. Design a rest API and code it.
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Design and code a REST API for a software developer interview.
• Define the endpoints and HTTP methods for the API (e.g. GET /users, POST /users)

• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g. JWT tokens)

• Use proper status codes for responses (e.g. 200 OK, 401 Unauthorized)

• Include error handling and validation for input data

• Document the API using tools like Swagger or OpenAPI
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Q2. Questions related to JPA HIBERNATE SQL
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Q1. Discussion related to Last company Project and architecture level questions
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Q2. Write code to calculate frequency of a word using Stream API and lambda expressions
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Calculate word frequency using Stream API and lambda expressions
• Use Stream API to convert array of strings to stream

• Use Collectors.groupingBy to group words by their frequency

• Use Collectors.counting to count the occurrences of each word
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Q1. Basic of java to advanced
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Q2. Array related questions
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Q1. Architecture related
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Q2. Management roles
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Normal coding round with simple oa complexity

Q1. Discussion on projects
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Q2. Culture fit check
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DSA questions and programming concepts

Q1. Reverse string and optimize it
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Reverse array of strings efficiently
• Use two pointers approach to swap characters from start and end of each string

• Optimize by using in-place reversal instead of creating new strings

• Consider edge cases like empty strings or strings with only one character
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Q2. Reverse binary tree
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Q1. Salary expectations
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Q2. Joining location
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Q1. SOLID principles
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Q2. Microservice Architecture and Kafka
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Q1. Questions on spring boot and question around spring annotations and its benifits
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Q2. Questions on Java 8 - 21 versions such as virtual threads and stream API
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Q3. Question on Databases fundamentals.
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Asked some basic level questions

Asked little bit hard questions

Asked depth questions and wrote some sample programs

Q1. Wrote some sample program
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Q1. Salary discussion
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