I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY) in Oct 2015
Interview
I was referred by a friend. A few days later I was contacted by a recruiter, she was very nice and personable. A week later I was interviewed by another Deployment Strategist. Initially I was very excited about Palantir after speaking with the recruiter and my friend but after my one on one interview the excitement quickly faded. My interviewer was very dry and had only been at the company for 6 months. He seemed disinterested and asked me the same question multiple times. He was interviewing me on probability and statistics and based on his questions it was clear that he had no experience with statistics. It was frustrating to have the company not take it as seriously as I did. The only time my interviewer showed any interest was after I asked about his path to Palantir (which included no statistics training) and what his current project was. He pretty much hung up on me mid question. I still admire the work Palantir does but it was definitely not a good fit for me. My interviewer said they pretty much live at the office and frown upon those who go home and spend time with their families. I withdrew my application the next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are three strengths and three weaknesses?
If your supervisors were to rate you on a scale of 1-10 what would the rate you?
Tell me a time when you predicted something?
Where do you want to be in five years?
How do you make sure you are not over-fitting your model?
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
They really want to get to know you throughout the process, and see how you think about data in different ways and how you solve problems. You have to build a product which takes a long time.
Started with a quick review of my recent experiences and behavioral questions, and then jumped into a SQL interview. It was mostly a large code file which had a lot of bugs in it that had to be fixed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked my about a recent project I worked on at my recent experience and then asked follow up questions about implementation decisions for the project.
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
There were 3 stages:
1. Chat with a currently deployment strategist (20 min)
2. Onsite interview: consisted of a 45 minute technical comprehension portion and a 45 minute decomposition portion
3. Interview with hiring manager (30-60 min)
After passing a round, they were very quick to get back to me, usually same day or end of the next business day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is work you have done that you are very proud of?