Palantir technologies Forward-Deployed Engineer interview experience

One of the rounds involved data queries where the interviewer taught me a new “language” and then had me execute basic queries with it. I liked that part because it forced me to pay attention to definitions and syntax rather than rely on memory alone.

After that, I had system design interviews—two of them—and the prompts leaned into creativity as much as engineering. One of the scenarios asked me, with a playful tone, to imagine being deployed to the moon to identify new species of alien life, and then to describe what kind of system I’d build. The goal was clearly about structuring