I applied online. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England)
Interview
Invited to an online live technical interview - 60min video call with software engineer, while I answered some coding questions in Python on a website (shared online coding environment) that the engineer could also see. First 15mins was answering questions on past experience and algorithmic knowledge. The coding was a multi-part question, where they said to get as far as you can within the time. The interviewer and rejection email were so polite, even though I didn't perform well, and helped maintain some confidence!
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
Project build in foundry -> onsite -> hiring manager. Insanely slow process. It took them forever to get back to me after hiring manager, almost two full weeks. Almost excepted elsewhere in that time
First they just send you a phone screen to talk more about your background, why forward deployed vs normal swe, and some behavioral stuff. The first technical round was a code pair interview using hackerrank and microsoft teams. It was barely DSA, mainly just needed a for loop and hash table.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know the different between forward deployed and normal SWE? Why do you want to do forward deployed?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (De Zoom)
Interview
A simple technical interview, first round after a recruiter call. Didn't require optimality just want the solution to run and work. Pretty longwinded solution needed, more about coding ability than about algorithm knowledge and implementation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Card game question, multiple players with a hand of five ish cards, all players play a card, highest card wins each round. Determine the number of wins for each player.