What is the hiring process like at Palantir Technologies?

None at all, Do not recommend

Hiring Process is Unprofessional, Even when signing an Offer you are not guaranteed a job. I was fired on my Start Date, I Come from a DOD background, Standard template justification, However they went with another candidate who low balled my Offer.

Great benefits, high achieving colleagues, fun offices, opportunity to learn a lot initially.

Lack of company strategy, shadow leadership doesn't communicate well to staff and prioritizes investors over employees, always on culture (everything is an emergency), expectation to work late across multiple time zones, you progress well if you are very pro-mission, pro-everything-about-the-company and live and breathe it. Performance and progression management process is quite poor and raises are non-existent for multiple years. A lot of staff reductions due to overhiring or due to share price concerns.

You do get a lot of responsibilities fast, so can be good for learning on a first job.

There is close to no career progression (monetary or level) at palantir with additional responsibility. Very little control on what you get to work on as a new hire

High probability of bright colleagues. Interesting 'behind the industry curtains' perspectives. If you can figure it out, it can be very feasible to move around the company and "chart your own path." Many people also do have positive overall experiences, even if working a lot. Most people are like "oooo palantir" when you tell them you work there.

Working here is a very high variance experience. Palantir confuses "no structure" for "flat structure". It would seem that this attribute that they present as distinguishing feature is actually just a way to elude organizational accountability. There is an appreciable chance that you end up with a bad manager, that doesn't know how to manage or is just checked out, and you'll be super confused all the time. "Mean Girls" type atmosphere, as others have said, meaning people will be saying one thing to your face and another to your manager or they'll say that someone gave such and such feedback even if they didn't. All too easy to get stabbed in the back by dishonest leads/colleagues. You can easily end up stranded with literally no organizational safety net, and it can feel like the Hunger Games. Sudden surprise dismissals on false pretensions, without any explanation. They've been doing quiet firings for months now to try to claw back their stock grants that have appreciated so much, so they can be GAAP profitable for SP500 inclusion, which they ended up not getting. Don't even get me started with the AIP bs.