I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies in Nov 2014
Interview
A recruiter initially reached out to me after finding my online portfolio. After a 15ish minute HR phone screen, I was set up for my first interview. The first round was a 60 minute interview with a Deployment Strategist that was part technical part problem solving. Nothing too crazy if you have a technical background. I got positive feedback from that interview and was asked to do a project using Palantir software. After the project was completed, I had another phone interview to discuss the project. I was not selected to move on past this round unfortunately. If I would have been, however, the next step was onsite interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you prove to me that the servers for Netflix are not on the moon?
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.
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
There were 3 stages:
1. Chat with a currently deployment strategist (20 min)
2. Onsite interview: consisted of a 45 minute technical comprehension portion and a 45 minute decomposition portion
3. Interview with hiring manager (30-60 min)
After passing a round, they were very quick to get back to me, usually same day or end of the next business day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is work you have done that you are very proud of?