Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Palo Alto, CAPosted May 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a first screening round, I ended up in a technical interview that lasted about four hours.

It was structured around a mix of general knowledge and two separate one-hour coding sections, so it never felt like it was just one problem—you could feel the interviewers trying to sample how I think across topics.

The coding questions leaned heavily toward data structures and algorithms. The overall experience felt intense but coherent: it matched what was described about their process being more about the way you work than the final outcome. I didn’t end up getting an offer, but I left with a better sense of what they meant by process, because the interview emphasized consistency across

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