Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

Medium

Positive

Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The way my process unfolded was a sequence of three technical rounds, and each one mixed in behavioral prompts with questions tied to my resume.

The coding round was a practical coding task in the same family as a stock-related problem I’d seen online before. After that, the code review round focused on modeling a graph of city roads, where I had to implement classes for location, roads, and connections.

I hit a bug related to road directionality, and that pushed me into solving shortest paths between two cities using BFS when the weight was 1 and Dijkstra’s algorithm when it wasn’t. The last technical round was labeled system design but didn’t feel like the traditional patterns interview—my task was to design a system monitor that

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