Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United KingdomPosted Dec 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter call that focused on my background and ambitions, and then a live coding round where the prompt felt relatively straightforward.

The main thing was how I talked through what I was doing, not just getting to the final answer. After that, I moved into a systems design interview that felt much more stressful. One interviewer in particular came across as difficult, and even when I had technical problems, they didn’t seem engaged or willing to help me work through it.

From there, the process broadened into a back-to-back style onsite with multiple engineer-led interviews. I did a coding portion that was framed as a basic question, then a short discussion that touched on scaling concepts like map-reduce. I also had a

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