Palantir Interview Experiences & Questions
8 real Palantir interviews shared by candidates: every round, the questions they were asked, how they answered, and whether they got the offer. Latest: Jul 2026.
What to expect at Palantir
Based on 8 real interviews
By role
The Palantir interview process
Most common round types: Behavioral (6), Coding (5), Decomposition (4), Debugging (1), Case Study (1), SQL (1).
Real Palantir interview questions
- Why do you want to work at Palantir, and what do you know about what we actually do?
- Learning round: given a documentation of an obscure coding language, solve problems.
- Why Palantir?
- Use this new query language to solve a data problem, and talk through why you're doing what you're doing.
- Here is a big ambiguous problem. Break it down and tell me how you would solve it.
- What are the things you are weakest in that might make you not succeed here?
- Given jobs with dependencies, return a valid execution order.
- leetcode medium
- Why do you want to work at Palantir?
- Find and fix the defect causing duplicate alerts.
- learning and decomposition
- Why forward deployed engineering?
- How would you design a product using historical taxi-trip data to help drivers?
- Explain a past project.
- Tell me about a time you worked with unclear customer requirements.
- Given users find the most active user
- Tell me about the most ambiguous project you have owned.
- If you could solve any problem, what would you choose to solve and why?
- Build something to gather data of life on a planet.
- Why does your solution need to be built, and what changes for the user if it works?
- Why are you interested in Palantir?
- Sql-based learning
- If you had unlimited resources at Google, what would you build and why?
- Background questions (your past experiences, projects, etc)
- Design a system to help internal company teams arrange events/meetups for hobbies and interests.
- Background questions (your past experiences, projects, etc.)
- Write the code to implement one of the core features that you have specified in the design
All 8 Palantir interview experiences
“My interview process included a recruiter screen, technical coding interviews, and a final behavioral and problem-solving round. What went well was that the interviewers were clear, collaborative,…”
“The process was well organized and the interviewers were collaborative. I did well when thinking aloud and adapting to new information. I could have managed time better during the…”
“Friendly recruiter, easy going but clearly wants to understand why you have applied for this position”
“I went into the decomposition round expecting a consulting case, and that was the exact wrong frame. What they really cared about was whether I could take a huge messy problem, turn it into data and…”
“Phone screen and first coding technical was easy, the hardest part for me was the SQL learning, I've never used SQL prior”
“Overall, the process was clear, well-structured, and moved at a great pace. What went well: The technical and case-study discussions felt very collaborative and directly relevant to the role. I…”
“The process was much more difficult than I expected. Leetcode and a mini data project was presented. The leetcode project was a sliding window question.”
“Technical interview was enjoyable since it was less so rigorous LeetCode-style problems, and more practical coding to implement particular features. Prioritize a working solution over an unfinished,…”
Frequently asked questions
How many rounds are in the Palantir interview?
Candidates report a typical 3 rounds, usually including a recruiter screen, online assessment, phone screen, technical round.
How hard is the Palantir interview?
Candidates rate it 3.5/5 on average (difficult), across 8 interviews.
How long does the Palantir hiring process take?
About 3 weeks from first contact to decision, based on reported timelines.
What percentage of Palantir candidates get an offer?
29% of candidates with a final result got an offer (2 of 7).
What does the Palantir interview focus on?
The most common round types are Behavioral, Coding, Decomposition, Debugging.