I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
Invited in for "expedited" onsite in New York City without a phone screen because of my strong background. Was given a PowerPoint presentation about their products. Then I had two 45 minute technical interviews. The first question I solved in O(nlogn) time, but my interviewer was not satisfied and told me to keep trying. Eventually he showed me his approach which was still O(nlogn). I tried to explain this to the interviewer, but he admitted that he did not fully comprehend my code because he was unfamiliar C++ and was not "a fan of object oriented programming". I found that strange. Especially since I specifically asked if I should use C++ and he said yes. Could have easily done the exact same solution in Java, Python, or Javascript. He told me he was a physics major with no computer science background; I was a computer science major at a top school. Found it odd to say the least, but gave me a good idea of the caliber of talent the company had to offer. The next interview got even more bizarre. It was essentially a design question about making an mobile app full stack to perform a main feature and the interviewer came off disinterested, cranky, and outright rude. Very unprofessional. Possibly a poorly executed stress test to see how one might handle clients. I felt that I aced both interviews. Therefore when they ended my day after just two interviews I was quite surprised and at that point it was clear I was not going to receive an offer.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
Headhunter Screen that covered interest in role and background -> Recruiter screen that included additional probing of background and interest in role -> 3 technical rounds in one day, one DSA type question, one System Design, one with object-oriented Graph search question -> Final Round with Hiring Manager
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
I directly gave the technical interview, which was about 50 minutes long. The interviewer was nice, and the interview itself felt collaborative, where I could ask questions and share various problem-solving approaches.
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
I applied with a referral
Multiple rounds -
1. HR screen
2. decomposition round
3. onsite with 3 interviews (coding, learning, and decomposition)
4. hiring manager (didn't make it past this one)
Took them about 5 weeks after the hiring manager round to update me that I wasn't selected
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The hiring manager round got really deep into my career motivations
Forward Deployed Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Palantir Technologies with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 60% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Forward Deployed Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 150 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 Engineer according to 150 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 27%
Skills test: 18%
Personality test: 5%
Presentation: 4%
Group panel interview: 3%
Background check: 3%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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