I applied through a recruiter. The process took 7 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England) in Dec 2017
Interview
I got in touch with a recruiter after attending one of their company presentations at their office. She was very helpful and directed me towards the relevant people. I then completed the coding challenge, which I found on the difficult side and certainly did not pass all the test cases.
About a day later, I was contacted to schedule an HR phone screen, where I was asked expected behavioral questions. A week later I was scheduled for a phone coding interview. This was actually quite straightforward and doable if you have done the necessary prep.
After that came the on-site interviews. It consists of three interviews back-to-back. The interviewers were very friendly and it feels more like a conversation than a forced interview. They really help you shake loose the interview stress. After that they take you to lunch and you attend a presentation, after which I was asked to have another interview with a hiring manager. This was both behavioral and technical. All in all, I spent around 7 hours there that day.
After a week, I was asked to come in for yet another interview, with another hiring manager. This too was both technical and behavioral, but again in the form of a conversation. I heard back two days later.
It is a very well-organised interview process and the recruiters are very helpful. The one thing I would like to end with is that it is not impossible to get a job at this company. From my experience, it really does seem that they care a lot more about the way you approach a problem than memorizing computer science concepts. With that being said, you still need to be above-average in coding.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I signed an NDA, so I cannot disclose the interview questions, but I can say that some questions you can find in any coding interview book or online, and that all the questions were actually really interesting to solve.
Applied on their website and then received an email from a recruiter to schedule a phone screening. I expected to be interviewed by the recruiter (the person who sent me the email) but instead was called by one of their engineers.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked me what was the hardest challenge I solved and then asked how SLAM works.
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.
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Palantir Technologies interviews FAQs
Forward Deployed Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Palantir Technologies with 3.2 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 49% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Forward Deployed Software Engineer roles take an average of 36 days to get hired, when considering 177 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 Software Engineer according to 177 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 25%
Skills test: 17%
Presentation: 8%
Other: 3%
Personality test: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Group panel interview: 2%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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