I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies in Aug 2018
Interview
Two small phone interviews with a recruiter and a shared-screen hackerrank with an Engineer. The Engineer was boring and not very happy to conduct an interview. The coding question was not difficult.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
He asked about the biggest technical issue I’ve ever had.
The technical question was : write a program that given an array of intervals returns an array of intervals where all overlapping intervals have been merged.
Whatever language you want.
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 46.4% 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%
Group panel interview: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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