Palantir technologies Software Engineer interview experience

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Miami, FLPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After a recruiter screen that focused heavily on mission and real-world impact, I ended up doing a 90-minute Hackerrank OA.

The assessment didn’t feel like pure algorithm practice; it was more like an implementation mini-project using SQL and Python, which was a shift from the typical LeetCode vibe.

A bit later, I went into a virtual onsite that was built as a loop of multiple rounds pulled from different categories. The biggest part for me was the decomp stage. They gave a vague, messy prompt and basically watched how I pulled it apart—defining the inputs, mapping out subproblems, and talking through logic and clarifying questions as I went. After decomp, I had re-engineering work that involved a large chunk of

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