Palantir technologies·Forward-Deployed Engineer

Palantir technologies Forward-Deployed Engineer interview experience

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New York, NYPosted Mar 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The process started with a chill recruiter call that mostly ran through my resume and basic behavioral questions.

A short time later I had a 30-minute technical screen that leaned on LeetCode medium/hard. After that, the structure shifted toward an onsite built around decomp/learning plus behavioral discussion.

Onsite, I dealt with data manipulation alongside decomposition and learning-style prompts. The decomp/learning rounds pushed me to think more like a systems problem-solver than a coder chasing patterns. The interviews still asked me about my background and experience, but the technical part felt specifically targeted at how I’d operate in a forward-deployed setting where ambiguity is

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