Probably one of the most amateurish, incompetent and bizarre interview experiences I've ever had. The recruiters were hopelessly disorganized, it took almost a dozen emails to set up the first phone interview - which was fairly easy. They decided to go ahead and bring me in for the in-person in a couple of weeks. Three weeks later (after several unanswered pings), I get an email from a recruiter that all the interviewers are too busy at college recruiting events to come in on the next interview day but they'd do a second phone interview. A week later I another phone interview, I'm assured that I'll be brought in for an in-person that upcoming Friday. Two more weeks of unanswered pings, I finally get a recruiter, next Friday won’t work as all the interviewers will be at a theme park. The interview day is scheduled for the one after. Come to the interview day and find I'm in the middle of a huge cattle call. Have a long but successful interview in the morning followed by recruiter confusion. 45 minutes later a recruiter comes by and asks why I'm not with the other candidates having lunch. The recruiter asked how my two interviews that morning went, I explained I only had one, she text messages somebody and says "oh I see, your second interviewer couldn't make it in today" Ate lunch with and employee and two other candidates, both with zero qualifications, but were snowboarding buddies with somebody there. The other two “candidates” had nothing to ask, all of my questions were answered in an alarmingly cool-aid cult way. After lunch we were all brought into a large conference room and given a demo by a new guy who was being trained for sales. Two questions in and he sent out a e-flare for an experienced guy to save him. Affirmative cool-aid drinking answers followed every question. The demoers were unable to show any particular solutions to actual problems, often after several minutes watching them click around aimlessly. I asked a couple of basic industry questions that none of the demo team (it grew to four guys) were able to answer. After suffering through this for an hour, they opened it up to more failed Q&A while we all waited in the conference room for a recruiter. I was informed that two of my other interviewers couldn't be bothered to show up for work, but based on my singular interview in the morning, they were going to fast-track me to one of the seniors. The interview was conversational and went well. They decided that I should have a technical interview. About 15 minutes into the interview, I realized the interviewer was not a technical employee. His cover blown, he explained that he was just supposed to try and draw out technical answers from me to see if it "appeared" like I knew what I was talking about. He said I had done well. The recruiter came and got me and thanked me for my time. Three weeks later I hadn't heard anything so I pinged the recruiters, I heard back two days later from 2 of the recruiters with different answers, they wanted me to come back in for yet more in-person interviews because the hiring panel wasn't large enough for me. The scheduled date was two weeks later. I went in, had a cakewalk interview and then was informed that the second interviewer couldn't be bothered that afternoon (he was on-site) and that I'd have to come in for a third interview. The recruiter took me aside and apologized and said, "I'm not supposed to tell you this, but your interviews have all gone really well, the last interview is just a formality, after that we fly you out to Palo Alto to meet one of the founders, we should start to schedule that flight" I was taken aback, but glad that I had passed all the gauntlets. The recruiter got a text message and excused herself for a minute then came back in and said, "I'm really sorry, but we don't want you to have to come back in for a third interview, can you just do a skype interview from work?" I explained that I work in a secure facility and that skype won't work but I'd be happy to come back in or do it by phone. I got a t-shirt and a hug from the recruiter "it's too soon, but welcome!" Two weeks later I hadn't heard anything, so I pinged. They responded that they needed to setup the third in-person. My next email was a week later from a managing recruiter on the West Coast asking me to check my voicemail. I checked my voicemail and received more or less the following message "Hi, this is blah blah from Palantir, it was great to meet you last Friday (we never met), I just wanted to call you, we've decided that your application process is simply taking too long and we're going to move on to other candidates, please don't hesitate to call or email me with concerns or questions." There was no answer to any of my questions.

It was clear from the beginning of my interview that the interviewer had already found someone else, and I quickly received an email after my interview informing me that the role had been filled internally.