Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

The first real coding part was leetcode-style, usually landing around a medium level, where I was expected to work through the problem in a focused way. After that, the rounds shifted into Palantir’s “learning” and “decomposition” style interviews back-to-back. The decomposition round felt system-design adjacent—kept fairly high level at the beginning, but it still required structured thinking—while the learning interview was different in feel: I’d be asked to reason through unfamiliar code or behavior and show how I approached it while things were still clicking.

Across the remaining steps,