Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

United StatesPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied through a referral, which led to getting an email to set up a recruiter screen.

The recruiter call went well, and then I scheduled a 1-hour technical interview with an engineer. The question in that technical round felt pretty easy, and the conversation was straightforward.

After that early pass, I ended up with a rejection and didn’t get an offer. What stood out was how quickly I could reach a decision point, and also that I didn’t like how it felt like the process had already moved ahead of me before the recruiter step fully happened.

In the end, the most honest takeaway was that even when the first technical interaction felt comfortable, the process still didn’t

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