Palantir Technologies Business Development Interview Questions & Reviews

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Updated May 9, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Apr 2012 (took 4+ weeks)

1 phone screen followed by 3 back-to-back 1-on-1 interviews on-site

Some brain-teasers, questions about why you want to work there, general knowledge of your field

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Why do you want to work at Palantir?

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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 2 weeks)

After finishing an MBA, I left my email with Palantir at a college careers fair. They were very proactive in contacting me and took the time to write individually and in detail about the company culture and what to expect.

Even though they decided my experience was not relevant to their current needs, it was a positive interaction.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Apr 2010 in Palo Alto, CA (took 2 months)

Strange. I had a couple of phone screens then flew out for on-sites which they do on wednesdays. I interviewed with the finance team--the interviews were casual and the questions were interesting quantitative questions mostly. A couple algorithm/coding questions and a couple problems involving dice, jelly beans, jars, goats, doors and the like.

The office is typical silicon valley: jeans and t-shirts, video game rooms, scooters, free drinks and caf etc. I frankly find that whole vibe a little phony--somebody's paying for the redbull--but some people are into it. The senior people came across as super arrogant, with one enumerating the alma mater's of various engineers. Which is annoying--if I wanted to put up with that crap then I'd work at a bank.

Anyways, they called back and asked me to interview at an office near me. Which went fine. Then I had phone calls with two "of the founders", which were pretty much non-eventful if a little awkward. Then they called and said I was a bad fit. Which was honestly probably true, but it shouldn't have taken two months and a ton of my time to determine that.