Forward Deployed Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Palantir Technologies with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Forward Deployed Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 150 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Palantir Technologies overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Palantir Technologies as a Forward Deployed Engineer according to 150 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 18%
Personality test: 5%
Presentation: 4%
Group panel interview: 3%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England) in Oct 2025
Interview
I had a very pleasant interview experience with Palantir. The process consisted of three interviews in total. The first was a recruiter screening focused on my background, goals, and career ambitions. The following rounds were technical and well structured: one interview introduced a new concept and asked me to apply it in a small coding exercise, which I found refreshing and educational, and another combined technical problem solving with more abstract system design discussions.
Overall, the interviews were challenging but fair, and the interviewers were professional and supportive throughout the process. The experience gave me a good impression of Palantir’s engineering culture and emphasis on learning and problem solving, and I appreciated the clarity and organization of the overall interview flow.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
One of the most memorable questions was an abstract problem-solving exercise framed as a mission scenario. I was asked to imagine being the first person landing on a new planet for three days, with the goal of collecting as much information as possible about the species living there. The interviewer was interested in how I would structure the problem, define assumptions, prioritize what to observe, and design a systematic approach to gathering and organizing data rather than focusing on a single correct answer.
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
I directly gave the technical interview, which was about 50 minutes long. The interviewer was nice, and the interview itself felt collaborative, where I could ask questions and share various problem-solving approaches.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
I applied with a referral
Multiple rounds -
1. HR screen
2. decomposition round
3. onsite with 3 interviews (coding, learning, and decomposition)
4. hiring manager (didn't make it past this one)
Took them about 5 weeks after the hiring manager round to update me that I wasn't selected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The hiring manager round got really deep into my career motivations
I had behavioral interviews and then 4 in person interviews. The behavioral was straightforward. There was also a data query interview where they taught you a new "language" and had you execute basic queries in it. Then there was a system design interview. I had two of these. The last one they asked me if I was deployed to the moon to identify new species of alien what kind of system would I build.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were deployed to the moon to identify new species of alien what kind of system would I build.