Forward Deployed Engineer Software Development Engineer Interview Questions

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

22 Nov 2017

Merging of Sets: Sets Users which reference other user groups.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

9 Feb 2015

Max sum subsequence of an array

Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

28 Sept 2012

I have 100 bottles of wine. 1 is poisoned. I have 10 rats. My guests are coming in an hour but the poison takes 45 minutes to kick in and "kill" a rat. How do I test for and find the 1 bottle of poisoned wine?

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

17 Sept 2016

Q: How can you tell if a Linked List is a Palindrome?

Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

24 Feb 2015

Title Case the given input. Main goal was to check the memory efficiency.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

4 Mar 2013

Rotate the letters of a word by k, using only 1 extra byte of storage.

Forward Deployed Engineering Intern

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

19 Feb 2013

Given an input of a 3D matrix of ones and zeros, count the number of contiguous 1-filled regions (as separated by 0-filled regions), as well as the size of the largest one (I think; doesn't really change the problem much). I forget what these were called...

Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

8 May 2013

Given an input string, print out the N most common characters in that string.

Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

10 Sept 2015

Given a pointer to an element in a singly linked-list, how can you delete the element from the list?

Forward Deployed Engineer

Interviewed at Palantir Technologies

3.7★

4 Dec 2013

How would you program a computer to shuffle a deck of cards? (Generate a permutation of the numbers from 1 to 100, uniformly at random)