I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) in Sept 2012
Interview
Very pleasant atmosphere and responsive HR. Seems they fly you in fairly aggressively. HR's responsiveness made them very apt at making getting me from an initial phone call to an interview quickly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Rotate the letters of a word by k, using only 1 extra byte of storage.
I had behavioral interviews and then 4 in person interviews. The behavioral was straightforward. There was also a data query interview where they taught you a new "language" and had you execute basic queries in it. Then there was a system design interview. I had two of these. The last one they asked me if I was deployed to the moon to identify new species of alien what kind of system would I build.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you were deployed to the moon to identify new species of alien what kind of system would I build.
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
The interview process consisted of an initial recruiter screening followed by a technical interview with an engineer. The technical round focused primarily on LeetCode-style coding questions and problem-solving. The recruiter was responsive and the interview process was straightforward.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is a technical project I have worked on recently.
A recruiter reached out to me and has the initial screening. Then the recruiter reached back to me after 3 weeks. You just have to wait for the recuriter to reach out to you. It could take some time.