The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) in Apr 2010
Interview
Strange. I had a couple of phone screens then flew out for on-sites which they do on wednesdays. I interviewed with the finance team--the interviews were casual and the questions were interesting quantitative questions mostly. A couple algorithm/coding questions and a couple problems involving dice, jelly beans, jars, goats, doors and the like.
The office is typical silicon valley: jeans and t-shirts, video game rooms, scooters, free drinks and caf etc. I frankly find that whole vibe a little phony--somebody's paying for the redbull--but some people are into it. The senior people came across as super arrogant, with one enumerating the alma mater's of various engineers. Which is annoying--if I wanted to put up with that crap then I'd work at a bank.
Anyways, they called back and asked me to interview at an office near me. Which went fine. Then I had phone calls with two "of the founders", which were pretty much non-eventful if a little awkward. Then they called and said I was a bad fit. Which was honestly probably true, but it shouldn't have taken two months and a ton of my time to determine that.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
unix question: find a file containing a word in a file structure
Interviews with different team members to scope the role and assess team and company fit. Mainly communicated with the hiring manager. A few weeks between each call. Calls done via zoom then was invited to office for a in person interviews Not via recruiter.
It was straight forward. 4 rounds. Did an analysis on one company and how to best reaching out to the company and the sequence you are writing to get a meeting. One of the question was sell me a pen.
I applied online. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England) in Jan 2023
Interview
The first stage was a simple zoom call with HR, then had another interview with someone from the team , was given a prospecting task without a submission timeline, and was told I did not make it to the next stage
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Nothing much CV based questions, just research on the company. The interviewer was a bit friendly
Business Development 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 40% positive. To compare, the company-average is 46.4% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Business Development roles take an average of 34 days to get hired, when considering 15 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 Business Development according to 15 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 42%
One on one interview: 31%
Skills test: 12%
Presentation: 8%
Group panel interview: 4%
Other: 4%
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