Palantir technologies Forward-Deployed Engineer interview experience

I expected the recruiter would be the one interviewing me, but instead an engineer joined the call for the early technical screen. The vibe was collaborative: I could ask questions, talk through how I was thinking, and share different approaches as we worked through the problem.

Once I got into the technical round(s), the questions were mostly coding-style and problem-solving, with the occasional twist depending on the interviewer. I remember a straightforward LeetCode-like coding session where I had to walk through my approach, and another where the interviewer essentially used a “debug