I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies in May 2015
Interview
I was interviewed over the phone with a Deployment strategist in London. She was clearly following a script and ticking off boxes. The interview did not leave room for conversation outside of their script and she was not able to answer any questions that I had about the work in the office where I was applying for the role.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
If your previous three managers could grade you from 1 to 10 where 1 is the lowest grade and 10 is the highest grade, how would they grade you?
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