Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

SydneyPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an online assessment, then moved to a phone screen, and then into a technical round.

The technical part included LeetCode-style problems plus a system design question, so it wasn’t just coding—it asked for broader thinking.

One of the rounds also leaned into debugging and async behavior. I was asked to trace a long program, and the focus was on figuring out a race condition in asynchronous logic. The interviewer was helpful with questions, which made it less stressful, but it was still technically challenging.

I didn’t move forward past those technical stages and ended up without an offer. Honestly, I felt like the system design and debugging components were what I

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