I applied through an employee referral. The process took 8 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY) in Sept 2015
Interview
It was an incredibly long process--almost 2 months from when I first put in my application until my onsite interview. Partly this was because Palantir kept cancelling/rescheduling the interviews at the last minute, which was very frustrating. An acquaintance had forwarded my application; then I spoke to a recruiter on the phone, who barely asked me any questions. I had a phone interview several weeks later, where I was asked to talk more about my background and interest in the job and I also got relatively standard behavioral questions (e.g., how do you solve problems?). Several weeks afterwards I had an onsite interview. It was about 3hrs and I met with 4 different people, mostly deployment strategists, but also one engineer, and one more senior person. It was a mixture of behavioral questions and problem-solving questions (including the Kayak one that other people on this site have mentioned). A week later the recruiter e-mailed to let me know that they weren't going to move forward with my application.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How can payment processors (companies that process credit card transactions for retailers) use their data to gain a larger share of the market, i.e. how can their data be useful to retailers?
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