I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Washington, DC) in July 2011
Interview
Two part interview, one phone conversation followed by an in person interview 2 weeks later. The 2nd interview was over the course of nine hours. I met with everyone from VPs and HR to other deployment strategies and back end developers. Each person had a different set of questions was quite difficult but rewarding
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you could redo DC's metro system how would you do it and why.
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.
Initial screening call with a current Palantir employee -> onsite interview -> hiring manager interview.
Overall very friendly and great. But it was a bit chaotic and unstructured though. The onsite interview had 30 people in one room for almost 4 hours. And the interview portion was only an hour of it. If you’re out of college this is exciting and great experience, but as something with work experience, it was frustrating taking PTO to go in office to have it be a college onboarding day