I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY) in May 2015
Interview
I had a phone screen with an HR representative and then got a follow up phone interview with a Deployment Strategist. The HR team was very efficient in scheduling the interview in a timely manner due to other outstanding offers. The phone call lasted about an hour. The interviewer jumped right into asking me broad questions about my career goals and then how I'd use data to solve business problems, but not in a specific scenario. I wasn't sure whether the interviewer was trying to 'stress test' me, or if he just felt that there was no need for friendliness during an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Where do you see yourself in five years?
What are your weaknesses?
What's another weakness?
What's another weakness?
What's the name of your last boss, and what how would that person rate you to work with 1 - 10? (I don't think they were actually going to contact them, just trying to get you to be honest by associating their name.)
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