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Updated May 28, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed May 2012 (took 1+ week)

After my friend reffered me to Palantir, got a mail from HR to schedule the interview. However on the scheduled day the interviewer missed the call. After a mail interview was rescheduled but again interviewer missed the interview call and it happened 4 times over a period of 10 days.

Finally HR left over it to interviewer to schedule the call when we agreed to talk on a Sunday. However this time interviewer called a bit earlier and was not at all intrested in going forward for the call. He just asked two questions and even on answering them utmostly ended the call abruptly.

My review for the organization by the way they interviewed. Glad to receive a rejection mail from them. Anyways i won't have joined such a mis-managed organization.

Interview Questions

Expression to find out phone numbers in number of files.

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Difference between process and threads ?

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

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4.0

Difficult Interview

Overall Positive Experience

Received and Accepted Offer

Interviewed Apr 2012 (took a day)

First stage involved two phone interviews, questions were tough but they helped me work through them. I guess I did well on phone interviews, so I was invited for in person interviews--there were about 5 (maybe 6 or 7, cant remember) one on one interviews. I thought questions were perhaps easier than the phone interviews but I did study many algorithms prior to the interview so maybe thats why.

Interview Questions

What's an interesting project/program you've worked on?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.

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3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2011 (took 2 weeks)

There were 2 phone screens. General testing questions. Nothing major.

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Test cases for a vending machine

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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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3.0

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Overall Positive Experience

Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Aug 2009 in Palo Alto, CA (took 1+ week)

I applied for a business development position. They handed me off to an engineering position. I would have preferred they just turned me away, but I have to respect the attention and effort on their part.

They were after a very specific QA related skill set which was entirely foreign to me. I fell in love with the company, but knew that position was not right for me.

I had a second phone interview which (2 required for out of state hires). As disappointing as the whole process was in the end, I definitely feel good about the company. I just hope they give me another chance if a suitable position opens up.