I was contacted by the HR person and had my first interview with a senior product quality engineer. Then I had another phone interview with a team member. I didn't make it to the on-site interview though. The overall interviewers were very nice and straight-forward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a code, how would you test it.
How would you test an Amazon shopping cart.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
Talked to a recruiter on the phone for about a half hour. He told me I fit into this position given the resume I submitted. Talked to an engineer 2 days later and she asked me several technical questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have an unlimited amount of eggs at a 100 story building. Explain how you would find the lowest floor an egg can drop from without breaking using the least amount of testing eggs possible.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
I went through a quick interview with the hiring manager and two different current QE employees over a period of 4 weeks. The interviewers were extremely nice and willing to help out and answer any questions; I very much enjoyed going through the interview process with Palantir. They ask in general two types of questions in the interview: a simple technical question that addresses whether you know about simple data structures and is at least capable of adding on the their current vocab and understanding, and a testing question where they ask you to test a product (i.e. a vending machine).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you get the nth term of a fibonacci sequence?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) in Mar 2014
Interview
Consisted of initial phone screen by recruiter, plus three additional 45 minute phone interviews with project and team leads. I was not interviewing for a strictly coding-focused position, more of grey-box or black-box testing, so the questions I was asked were typically general questions about testing some hypothetical product. However, I did have a few basic coding questions that were basically to assess whether I was familiar with certain data structures (hash maps, arrays, sorted heap) and assessing runtime (big-O notation).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most of the questions were things like, "You work for a company that manufactures blenders. How do you test this blender?" They're basically looking for you to consider every possible angle in which you would test this product-- Who's the user, what's your company's warranty, how does it handle standard products, how well does it make a milkshake, how does it handle rocks if you put them in there, should it handle rocks, etc. They also asked me to test an office printer, an ATM machine, and a web browser.
The coding questions I was asked were things like, "Given an unsorted array with n elements where every element except for one is duplicated in the array, how do you find the unique element?"
Product Quality Engineer Intern applicants have rated the interview process at Palantir Technologies with 3.3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Product Quality Engineer Intern roles take an average of 26 days to get hired, when considering 4 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 Product Quality Engineer Intern according to 4 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 50%
Personality test: 17%
One on one interview: 17%
Skills test: 17%
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