I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England) in Apr 2017
Interview
I was contacted by recruiter and have visited the office and talked to an engineer prior to interview. Afterwards, I took a month to prepare (via hackerrank).
First interview step was phone (skype) interview. It took about 45min and I needed to code and discuss an algorithm. The recruiter got back to me few days later, inviting me for an on site interview. There, I had 3 similar interviews in person, followed by a demo to all of us that interviewed on that day.
Each of the four interviews followed same track: first tell a bit about yourself, they might ask points from CV. Then solve a technical problem (about 20-30min). Finally, you can ask any questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have a list of intervals, how would you merge them? (code the algorithm in language of your choice)
e.g. [1,3], [8,11], [2,6] => [1,6], [8-11]
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.
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 46.4% 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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