Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

United StatesPosted May 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process had a rough start due to scheduling issues that were out of my control.

I was supposed to start with a recruiter call, but the recruiter flaked on me multiple times, and it kept happening right at the time I joined the meeting.

Because of that, the “process” didn’t really feel like I got a fair first interaction—there was no real interview quality to assess, just repeated cancellations. I never reached the later technical stages from that point, and overall the experience left me pretty disappointed.

I didn’t end up getting an offer, and my honest reflection is that it undermined my confidence from the beginning. Even if the rest of the interviews might have

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