Palo Alto CEO: ~50% of new hires in past 6 months were early-career, judged on coding-agent skills
johncoogan · x · 2026-09-04
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora says roughly 50% of the company's new hires over the past six months have been early-career. The company doesn't look at where candidates went to school — it cares whether they can actually use coding agents and AI. Arora says AI-savvy hires will likely soon outnumber non-AI-savvy staff, alongside a parallel push for cybersecurity experts who know AI.
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