I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England)
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. She help me setup quickly a Skype interview with a Forward Deployed Engineer, which focused on my past work experiences and a technical question. The week after, I was invited onsite (London, UK) for half a day. I did 3 different interviews: a problem solving/coding one, a problem decomposition/design one and one with a PM about creating my own start-up (very challenging).
I received an offer 2 days later, which I accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You want to create a start-up that suggests recipes based on ingredients in your customer's fridge. What do you do?
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
Project build in foundry -> onsite -> hiring manager. Insanely slow process. It took them forever to get back to me after hiring manager, almost two full weeks. Almost excepted elsewhere in that time
First they just send you a phone screen to talk more about your background, why forward deployed vs normal swe, and some behavioral stuff. The first technical round was a code pair interview using hackerrank and microsoft teams. It was barely DSA, mainly just needed a for loop and hash table.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know the different between forward deployed and normal SWE? Why do you want to do forward deployed?
I applied online. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY) in Feb 2026
Interview
I had a 30 minute phone screen with a deployment strategist. The call went really well. They asked me mostly about my resume, projects, and general background even though I was expecting it to be technical in some way.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What was a project you did either at work or outside of your work that was challenging to you?