Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

Then I did two back-to-back rounds that were very characteristic of Palantir: learning and decomposition interviews, and finally a hiring manager round. The coding portion was the entry ticket, but the learning/decomp pair was the heart of the evaluation—decomposition felt system-design adjacent, while the learning interview tested how I handled unfamiliar code and reasoning on the fly.

Across this pathway, the process also ran through an OA and then an HR touchpoint before the later technical steps, with a possible hiring manager skip depending on how my interviews were progressing. When it