Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process went beyond a single coding screen and into the full loop.

It started with a recruiter call, then I had an assessment phase before moving into live technical interviews. Eventually I landed in a virtual onsite that included the distinctive combination of a decomposition-style system design discussion and a learning-focused interview, with a hiring manager round layered at the end.

Across those onsite steps, the problems were often framed in a way that forced me to ask the right clarifying questions and define scope before diving into details. The decomposition round specifically felt quite vague at first—almost like I was being dropped into an

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