I applied through university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) in Jan 2013
Interview
HR was very responsive to any questions, and I would almost always get responses in 24-48 hours of sending an email. The overall process was pretty good, first went through a phone interview, was told that I had passed it within a day or two, then went to an all-day onsite, where I had four technical interviews, a lunch interview, and a founder interview. Overall a great experience, probably the best that I had so far.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Don't remember specifics anymore, but definitely brush up on algorithms and creative ways to apply them. Find the naive solution first (usually not too difficult) then look at the way you implemented it to see if you can replace loops with dynamic programming and whatnot.
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.