Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

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Austin, TXPosted Dec 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews felt like a full, end-to-end technical assessment of how I handle ambiguity.

It began with a recruiter call focused on my background, then I got a coding round—leetcode-style, typically medium to hard depending on the question. After that, the next step moved away from standard coding into a more product-thinking technical space: I had a design-oriented behavioral/database-flavored interview, and then I faced a hiring manager round that could pull from the same themes.

In another stretch of the process, the sequence was even more explicit: there was an OA first, then a HR conversation, then a coding round, followed by separate learning and decomposition interviews,

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