I applied through a staffing agency. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies in Aug 2014
Interview
Spoke to a member of HR, who then set up a phone interview with a DS. The interviewer mainly asked situational and behavioural questions and my CV and I what I currently do in my job. No technical questions at all. He interrupted me often while I was answering questions to move on to another one. Overall not an unpleasant experience. I heard that they won't continue with the process a week later. What is very disappointing is that they did not provide any feedback. I think this is quite rude given that I ended up wasting 45 mins of my time without getting even some constructive feedback.
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
They really want to get to know you throughout the process, and see how you think about data in different ways and how you solve problems. You have to build a product which takes a long time.
Started with a quick review of my recent experiences and behavioral questions, and then jumped into a SQL interview. It was mostly a large code file which had a lot of bugs in it that had to be fixed.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
They asked my about a recent project I worked on at my recent experience and then asked follow up questions about implementation decisions for the project.
Initial screening call with a current Palantir employee -> onsite interview -> hiring manager interview.
Overall very friendly and great. But it was a bit chaotic and unstructured though. The onsite interview had 30 people in one room for almost 4 hours. And the interview portion was only an hour of it. If you’re out of college this is exciting and great experience, but as something with work experience, it was frustrating taking PTO to go in office to have it be a college onboarding day