Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

Posted Feb 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My earliest step was a recruiter-sourced phone screen, and it stayed tightly connected to a backend-style coding prompt.

The interview included a very specific scenario about company shares at different points in time, with the task essentially centered on computing outcomes from those timestamps. I remember the structure being a resume deep dive followed by a timed coding portion that implemented a given template.

After that phone screen, the process didn’t continue in a way that led to an offer for me. I also saw how these stages could be tougher than they look: the coding portion could feel “hard LeetCode” even when the recruiter parts were friendly, and the jump from conversation to execution was

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