I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
A phonecall with HR followed by an phone interview with a Deployment Strategist. The HR screening was fine, with questions about my CV and what attracts me to the company (though they contacted me first). The DS interview was lots of HR-style questions but felt a bit dry, not much back and forth discussion. I then got the chance to ask about Palantir. Nothing technical.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What attracts you to Palantir?
Talk about a time you did this or that or something you are proud of.
Biggest achievement.
Describe life in 10 years.
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
They really want to get to know you throughout the process, and see how you think about data in different ways and how you solve problems. You have to build a product which takes a long time.
Started with a quick review of my recent experiences and behavioral questions, and then jumped into a SQL interview. It was mostly a large code file which had a lot of bugs in it that had to be fixed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked my about a recent project I worked on at my recent experience and then asked follow up questions about implementation decisions for the project.
Initial screening call with a current Palantir employee -> onsite interview -> hiring manager interview.
Overall very friendly and great. But it was a bit chaotic and unstructured though. The onsite interview had 30 people in one room for almost 4 hours. And the interview portion was only an hour of it. If you’re out of college this is exciting and great experience, but as something with work experience, it was frustrating taking PTO to go in office to have it be a college onboarding day