Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Jul 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Recruiter outreach led into an OA, and then I moved through multiple back-to-back technical steps.

Once I got the recruiter phone call, the conversation was a mix of logistics and basic fit, and then the main coding interview started.

What surprised me most was how the later “powerday” style rounds shifted away from pure coding. I had to handle a systems-design-ish scenario where I was given realistic design problems, asked how I’d solve them, and then draft out an API-level shape as part of the work. After that, there was a find-the-bug round where the focus was on debugging and tracing issues in a way that showed how I think. The final round was more personal and reflective—why I wanted

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