I applied through university. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Cambridge, England) in Mar 2014
Interview
Invited for an interview after the campus recruitment event. First basic phone interview with the HR. Then another phone interview with a Deployment Strategist. Very friendly HR and employees but the second interviewer was multitasking badly on the phone. He was on the road, and reception was terrible. At the same time he did not seem to be interested in interviewing, I described my CV for him 3 times with uttermost clarity but he did not get it. Then he threw a programming interview question. Waited a while, I stumbled since I did not expect that -then he asked me to mail the answer to him.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Describe object-oriented language to someone never heard of it before?
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