Palantir technologies·Forward-Deployed Engineer

Palantir technologies Forward-Deployed Engineer interview experience

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United KingdomPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After I applied online, I got a recruiter email about a week later, and my first conversation was a 30-minute chat that felt more like a real discussion than a checklist.

We talked through my background, why Palantir, and what roles I was open to. I also got asked behavioral prompts like a time I solved an ambiguous problem, plus practical questions about travel and, in some form, my visa situation.

A technical screen came next, then the process stretched out through multiple structured stages over roughly a month and a half. One round focused on decomposition and how I’d break down a problem rather than just “get the right answer,” and there was a coding component layered in—written in a way where the main test was explaining my thinking as I went. During

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