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%
Group panel interview: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 2%
Background check: 1%
Drug test: 1%
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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies in Jan 2014
Interview
An employee submitted my resume, I got a call from a recruiter, scheduled non-technical interview with a senior recruiter, after that a technical interview with a Forward Deployed Software Engineer.
I was not impressed with the interviewer. When I started asking questions about the programming project, he was not giving straight answers and finished with: "Just write the program". Strange - the process of elaborating the specs should be an important part of a programming interview.
As other people already noted, there is a striking change in the recruiter's attitude after you've been rejected. She sounded very sweet when she was interested, but the rejection letter which I received in response to my inquiry was just a formal canned letter from the company. This makes me think that "friendly atmosphere" is only for show. I did receive rejection letters from other companies before and they were personal and friendly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical interview was quite simple.
1. What you've been up to lately?
2. Describe HashMap for a layman
3. RAM vs HD for a layman
4. Write a program in any language to capitalize words in a string. Used callabedit.com
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.