Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

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Hong KongPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I experienced Palantir’s loop as something of a whirlwind, with recruiter steps and technical rounds lined up fast.

I remember it starting with a recruiter call, then moving to a phone screen and into a virtual onsite. By the time I got my onsite interviews scheduled, the whole timeline felt compressed enough that it didn’t really give me weeks to mentally reset between rounds.

The pattern in the conversations was pretty consistent: a behavioral-style phone screen where I was asked about my background and motivations, followed by technical coding questions. Once I hit the onsite, I saw the same signature format again and again—decomposition in the system-design neighborhood paired with a learning round

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