Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

New York, NYPosted Jul 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I had a 30-minute phone screen with a deployment strategist, and it went really smoothly.

The surprising part was that it wasn’t very technical. Instead, we mostly talked through my resume, my projects, and my general background, even though I’d expected at least some coding or deep technical questions.

After that call, my process didn’t result in an offer. The overall experience still felt decent because the conversation matched what I could clearly speak to, but it also made me realize how much of the early filter could be driven by narrative fit rather than technical depth.

What left me a little off-balance was that the screen felt more like positioning and motivation than

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