Palantir FDSE interview
Company: Palantir
Role: Software Engineer
Interview Month: Jul 2025
Interview Round: Onsite / Virtual Onsite
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Internal old SQL-like language
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Interviewed: Jul 2025
I was contacted by HR on LinkedIn and scheduled for a first-round technical phone screen. The round consisted of a single coding question with a follow-up. I was required to run my...
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Interviewed: Jul 2025
I went through a virtual onsite with four rounds: Incident simulation, System Design, Coding, and HM. The original HM was on vacation so a replacement interviewer conducted the HM...
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Interviewed: Jul 2025
I went through an OA on HackerRank, then a virtual onsite consisting of four rounds: System Design, Debug, Code Craft, and an HM round. The Debug round was challenging due to the i...
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Interviewed: Jul 2025
I interviewed for a Senior SDE general backend role. Received a rejection email two days after the onsite with no feedback provided. I felt my overall performance was decent but fo...
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Interviewed: Jul 2025
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Internal old SQL-like language
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Design a system for distributing medicine
Interviewed: Jun 2025
I delayed the onsite for two months after passing the phone screen. The onsite had four rounds. In the System Design round, the interviewer spent too long on a project deep dive, l...
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Interviewed: Jun 2025
The process began with a third-party HR screening call covering resume review and team alignment, followed by a phone screen. I passed with very positive feedback after one week. A...
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Interviewed: Jun 2025
I had a project dive interview with a hiring manager focused on the fulfillment domain. My project was ads-related, which did not align with the team's domain, and I was rejected.
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Interviewed: Jun 2025
Applied for a senior backend engineer position. There was a technical phone screen first, followed by a virtual onsite consisting of four rounds: two coding rounds, one system desi...
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Interviewed: Jun 2025
I was contacted by a recruiter and quickly moved to a first-round phone screen. My initial approach to the coding problem failed when the interviewer pointed out a key edge case I...
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