Palantir Technologies Forward Deployment Engineer interview questions

Got a tip from a friend that Palantir was an interesting company working with databases and structured and unstructured data. I went on the web site, played their demo, emailed the recruiter and did not hear from anyone. I applied again a week later and then got an email request for a phone screen. The first phone interviewer asked 3 questions, fairly deep, on networking, name service and nfs. The second phone interview was the hiring manager, asked some technical some personality questions. The gist was we're a start up, everyone does everything, really hard, all the time. They were looking for the best and brightest, to do what ever it takes to get the job done...... The third interview was the in person. It was a cattle call. There were at least two dozen people, of varying ages and experience. Meet 6 people, most of whom were very nice. Two were remote. Some asked technical questions, some personality questions. I did get the feeling, they had talked between the interviews and each had a purpose, or line of questions. Got to meet two of the founders at the end, which was an interesting surprise. I could tell, I did not get the job when I didn't hear from them by the second day. Not sure why, maybe I didn't express the fact that I was willing to be a slave for them. Interesting company, but I consider it a double edge sword. I am sort of glad I did not get an offer. But it would have been interesting to work on the product. Good luck to those who interview.

Applied through an employee referral, exchanged a few e-mails with a recruiter and then organised a phone interview. First phone interview consisted of some conversation about what I was doing at the moment, and then algorithms questions. Received a second phone interview which was similar, some casual discussion about different languages and why I liked them, then some coding/algorithms questions. Was supposed to go for on-site interviews in London, but both team members had last minute emergencies to sort out, so these work reorganised to skype interviews, similar questions to the other phone interviews, but in a more conversational style. Flown out to interviews in California, put up in a very nice hotel for a few night with everything paid for, despite only being interviewed on 1 day. Interviews all day with different team members with a presentation of the product in the middle, and was taken to lunch by one team member. After lunch a quick chat with my recruiter making sure we had everything sorted and filling me in on some bits of the job that hadn't been covered yet, then 2 interviews with the founders.