Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

CanadaPosted Nov 2024 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process kicked off with an outsourced, proctored interview where I only had to work through LeetCode-style problems while another person monitored from the side.

There wasn’t much conversation about the company or the role, and the focus was purely on solving.

After that, I ran into a harder programming experience that felt very strict: I was given dynamic programming and graph problems through a platform setup, with an interviewer who basically listened without offering hints or guidance. Even when I moved slowly, I couldn’t rely on any back-and-forth to steer the solution. By the time I finished, it felt like I was being evaluated on independent problem-solving under real constraints.

I didn’t receive an offer, and the overall experience left me

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