Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Neutral

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

My process started with a basic recruiter call, then I went straight into an online assessment.

After that, I had a first technical round that included decomp and debugging, and then I ended up at a final technical round that mixed coding with behavioral evaluation.

The experience was genuinely difficult and it was hard to read what would tip it in my favor. Even when I felt like I could do well on the coding side, the outcome didn’t seem fully tied to performance—more like there was a lot of randomness in where I landed. The overall vibe I took away was that it could swing quickly either direction.

I didn’t receive an offer, and honestly the hardest part wasn’t just the technical

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