Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

I had a phone screening, then the later rounds were done over video calls. The structure felt like OA first, then an LC-style technical round, and then the learning and decomposition interviews—two back-to-back segments where decomp mirrored system design thinking and learning focused on reasoning through material I couldn’t easily pre-study. The learning part in particular was hard to prepare for in a traditional way because it wasn’t just about knowing a set topic; it was about how I adapted under uncertainty.

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