Palantir technologies Forward-Deployed Engineer interview experience

The technical portion involved searching queries efficiently, and I chose a Python approach using a defaultdict, but I couldn’t get my implementation finished in time. The behavioral segment was a strange mix: I felt like it was rude on their side, but I still passed it, so the tone didn’t necessarily block progress.

Because the coding step was where I missed, the whole experience felt defined by timing and execution rather than whether I could understand the concept. I remember feeling that the problem itself wasn’t wildly complex, but I didn’t manage to translate the idea into working code