Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

New York, NYPosted Apr 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

They dropped a vague, messy problem into a document and didn’t give much guidance.

What I ended up doing was essentially talking through how I pulled it apart from scratch—defining inputs, outlining subproblems, and asking clarifying questions while the interviewer mostly stayed quiet.

The format didn’t feel like a standard “gotcha” test. Instead, it felt like pair-programming with someone who was more focused on observing my thinking than on feeding me hints.

I didn’t get an offer. The awkward part was that the lack of structure made it harder to predict what “good” looked like until the end, and I suspect the evaluation didn’t align with what I emphasized during the

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