I interviewed at Palantir Technologies in Oct 2016
Interview
Phone Call with HR, followed by Phone Call with a Deployment Strategist, then an On-site interview with three Deployment Strategists at the Palantir Office.
I applied online and got contacted by their HR.
HR is extremely efficient with regard to conveying interview results/scheduling next rounds.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
On site questions:
1) 1 question was about a product: a) What are the different uses of this product/how would you monetize it?, and b) How would you look to expand this business?
2) Another question was about Kayak, and how they'd use Palantir to gain insights into their data.
3) Lots of fit based questions, such as what was a difficult moment in your personal/professional life, why do you want to do Palantir?
they really like to go in-depth into data questions.
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?