Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Jan 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first real step was a Karat screen focused on hands-on graph traversal.

I remember feeling like the difficulty was pretty manageable compared to the horror stories I’d heard—mostly BFS/DFS style thinking, plus keeping an eye on space/time complexity. After that, I heard back the very next day and it moved quickly from there: I got a call, then I scheduled what ended up being the next round later on.

At the next stage, I had a phone screen with an engineer from Palantir after I’d already cleared the Karat and HR screen. The flow felt straightforward and structured, and it didn’t drag out for weeks the way some processes do. What stuck with me most was how

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