I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England) in Sept 2015
Interview
I had a couple of phone interviews with the recruiter and developers. Then they flew me to London for an on-site interview, had three interviews there with different, one engineer, one dev lead and his manager. The question weren't too difficult, not many coding\algorithmic questions. Overall it was a good experience
I applied through university. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
Got my resume put through at a university career fair. They asked me if I wanted to solve a problem on the spot, but I was not in the right mindset so I asked to not do that, which was fine.
Emailed with the recruiter and tried to convey that I wasn't sure if this was the right position for me, but he insisted it was. Interview was "test" questions, which was not my area of interest or strength in CS.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Something along the lines of how would you test a polling system.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) in Aug 2015
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter to do a phone call and talk about the company for about 30 minutes. She asked me a couple technical questions that were easy and also found on this website. After that, I had a phone call with an engineer but it wasn't a typical coding phone screen. I didn't even need to have my laptop as we talked through some system design questions (how would you design an elevator, Amazon, etc). Then I had another phone screen with an actual coding question which I completed on CoderPad. After that phone call I was invited to come onsite where I had a breakfast with an engineer to just ask questions and then 3 interviews in the afternoon followed by a demo by two other engineers. Before my interview, they had let me know that the hiring manager was on vacation that week so if I had done a good job, I would still have to do one more Skype interview with them. Ultimately, I did not move on past this stage but I really enjoyed meeting the team and the interviewers were all really nice. I think that Palantir is just a very top company and you have to interview almost perfectly.