I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (McLean, VA) in Feb 2013
Interview
Phone screen with recruiter (basically a sell of the job), then onsite interview. Flown to Palo Alto to finish onsite interview.
Met with most technical people - prepare to prove your skills.
Recruiter sold job as a more interesting tech job, listed a ton of technical buzz words and didn't understand the differences when I asked. They are pushing hard for the forward deployed role since they can't hire many people to want to drive around the DC area to sit at a customer site all day.
Eventually became a forward deployed engineer and realized how different the role was compared to what the recruiter said.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Algorithmic problem to solve sequence and calculate row in a given structure
Had a chat with HR and then a technical interview with an engineer. They gave some some quite normal leatcode type questions that I had to answer to continue to the next steps.
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
I have so far completed the 20 minute recruiter call, which was an easy behavioral. They asked me what I'm looking for in a job and what I do at my current role.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
Quick call with recruiter then technical interview. First call was easy, fit of company etc... Technical interview was leetcode easy and code walk through. Overall, much easier than what I had read online.