Palantir technologies·Forward-Deployed Engineer

Palantir technologies Forward-Deployed Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Nov 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I came in through a recruiter outreach after speaking with a current employee, and the flow felt pretty smooth up until the final rounds.

After a recruiter screen, I went into a coding and decomposition interview where the coding portion felt simpler than I expected and the decomposition was more of a high-level systems breakdown. The next step was a virtual onsite that included more decomposition and then a learning interview.

The learning interview was the part that threw me off. They told me I didn’t need to prep, but the round still had an expectation that I could work through specific SQL queries. I could talk through system design and coding strongly, but once the SQL questions came up without an environment where I

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