I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies in Aug 2025
Interview
Recruiter screen before entering the interview loop. It was scheduled for 20 minutes but the recruiter sounded disinterested, maybe I actually wasn't interesting. Ended up being like 14 minutes instead.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you took initiative. Follow-up questions will follow based on your answer
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
Project build in foundry -> onsite -> hiring manager. Insanely slow process. It took them forever to get back to me after hiring manager, almost two full weeks. Almost excepted elsewhere in that time
First they just send you a phone screen to talk more about your background, why forward deployed vs normal swe, and some behavioral stuff. The first technical round was a code pair interview using hackerrank and microsoft teams. It was barely DSA, mainly just needed a for loop and hash table.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know the different between forward deployed and normal SWE? Why do you want to do forward deployed?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (De Zoom)
Interview
A simple technical interview, first round after a recruiter call. Didn't require optimality just want the solution to run and work. Pretty longwinded solution needed, more about coding ability than about algorithm knowledge and implementation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Card game question, multiple players with a hand of five ish cards, all players play a card, highest card wins each round. Determine the number of wins for each player.