I applied through college or university. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Troy, NY) in Feb 2015
Interview
Asked questions on the spot in the career fair. Asked about how to check if a palindrome can be built from an input of letters. A palindrome is a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward or forward. They do give out some pretty nice merchandise.
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Question 1
You have two glass bottles that will break if dropped from a specific floor between 1 and 100. Find the most efficient way to find out which floor will break the glass.
Recruiter screening call, gauging interest. They were mainly interested in learning more about me, and how my expericnes may align with the role and company. Got the interview before any online assessment was shared, directly after a cold application.
After filling out essays on their application, I was sent an email outlining potential topics for the technical interview, as well as advice on preparing. The Interview was conducted with someone from the platform Karat. Was very smooth and the interviewer was very skilled, and they even offer a redo if you are not confident
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I do not remember, it was a leetcode medium problem though
Process was long and drawn out, with multiple different rounds of interviews. After the onsite, I had another interview with a hiring manager where he asked me even more technical questions.