Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

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De ZoomPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter call, I ended up with a pretty straightforward technical interview where the goal wasn’t to be perfect with optimality—it was mainly to get a working solution that ran and produced the right behavior.

The session felt more like a coding exercise focused on my ability to communicate while implementing than a deep algorithm grind. I remember the solution taking a long time to describe because I had to walk through a fairly detailed approach end to end.

What surprised me was how much attention the interviewer paid to my coding process and ability to fill in the reasoning as I went, rather than testing obscure theory. It ended up being a single technical round after the recruiter step, and I didn’t end up moving forward from there. I left thinking it was reasonable, just very specific to how

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