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Updated May 2, 2012 – Interview questions and reviews posted anonymously by interview candidates.
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Forward Deployment Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Posted May 2, 2012
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5.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2012 in Palo Alto, CA (took a day)
Got a tip from a friend that Palantir was an interesting company working with databases and structured and unstructured data. I went on the web site, played their demo, emailed the recruiter and did not hear from anyone. I applied again a week later and then got an email request for a phone screen.
The first phone interviewer asked 3 questions, fairly deep, on networking, name service and nfs.
The second phone interview was the hiring manager, asked some technical some personality questions. The gist was we're a start up, everyone does everything, really hard, all the time. They were looking for the best and brightest, to do what ever it takes to get the job done......
The third interview was the in person. It was a cattle call. There were at least two dozen people, of varying ages and experience. Meet 6 people, most of whom were very nice. Two were remote. Some asked technical questions, some personality questions. I did get the feeling, they had talked between the interviews and each had a purpose, or line of questions. Got to meet two of the founders at the end, which was an interesting surprise.
I could tell, I did not get the job when I didn't hear from them by the second day. Not sure why, maybe I didn't express the fact that I was willing to be a slave for them.
Interesting company, but I consider it a double edge sword. I am sort of glad I did not get an offer. But it would have been interesting to work on the product.
Good luck to those who interview.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Group/Panel Interview.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Posted Jan 21, 2012 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Received and Accepted Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2012 in London, England (United Kingdom) (took 2 months)
Applied through an employee referral, exchanged a few e-mails with a recruiter and then organised a phone interview.
First phone interview consisted of some conversation about what I was doing at the moment, and then algorithms questions. Received a second phone interview which was similar, some casual discussion about different languages and why I liked them, then some coding/algorithms questions.
Was supposed to go for on-site interviews in London, but both team members had last minute emergencies to sort out, so these work reorganised to skype interviews, similar questions to the other phone interviews, but in a more conversational style.
Flown out to interviews in California, put up in a very nice hotel for a few night with everything paid for, despite only being interviewed on 1 day. Interviews all day with different team members with a presentation of the product in the middle, and was taken to lunch by one team member.
After lunch a quick chat with my recruiter making sure we had everything sorted and filling me in on some bits of the job that hadn't been covered yet, then 2 interviews with the founders.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview and a Skills Test.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Posted Nov 7, 2011
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4.0
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 (took 4 weeks)
Multiple phone interviews with engineers at Palantir. Overall everyone was very nice. The technical questions were hard, but not daunting. I was under the impression that they were more interested in *how* you solved a problem then what your final solution was (except for the ones with a clear "correct" answer). Missed one question (and really, I had qualms about the validity of the interviewer's "better" solution) and I think that did it for me. In the end, the position wasnt really for me anyway. I wasnt surprised or upset when they said they would not be continuing the interview process.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Posted Jun 6, 2011 — 0 of 1 people found this helpful
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3.0
Average Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Mar 2011 in New York, NY (took 3 months)
3 phone interviews, 1 in-person in SF with three 1:1 interviews and 1 company presentation.
all interviews were technical but friendly with questions mostly covering hashtables and searching/sorting, with some focus on technical Java questions.
as for culture, most of the people in the position are men and very into lord of the rings, so i felt it was a little limited.
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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Posted May 6, 2011
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2011 in Palo Alto, CA (took 3 weeks)
Interviewed with an HR representative, as well as several Forward Deployed Engineers. Reviewed background, as well as CS concepts: Algorithms, Data Structures. Did some coding in a shared document, as well as some verbal coding. The engineers were very friendly, although expectations are high. Overall, the process was fairly typical for an engineering position at a software company.
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Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Posted Jan 26, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2010 (took 1 week)
Interviewer was very pleasant, asked a bunch of general questions then moved into very technical questions.
Example: how would you design a full text search engine?
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