Palantir technologies Forward-Deployed Engineer interview experience

The first real checkpoint was a phone screen, and it threw me off immediately with a kind of open-ended prompt about solving any problem in the world. I panicked when I answered and ended up saying something that sounded more dystopian than thoughtful, and you could feel the conversation veer away from me.

After that, it was essentially over—no long gauntlet of rounds, just a quick crash at the start. Looking back, I wish I’d responded more carefully, but at the moment it felt like I didn’t understand what they were aiming to learn from that question, so I couldn’t find the right tone.