Palantir

Forward Deployed Software Engineer Interview Experience - London, United Kingdom

January 26, 2026

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I applied through an employee referral.

Very intense interview process, with a total of 4 hours of interview including a 2-hour interview. But overall, it was an enjoyable process which challenged me. All my interviewers were very friendly and created an encouraging atmosphere.

Questions

System Design questions, and usual technical interview coding questions

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 3 interview experiences for the Palantir Forward Deployed Software Engineer role in London, England.

Success Rate

33%

Pass Rate

Palantir's interview process for their Forward Deployed Software Engineer roles in London, England is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive33%

Neutral67%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Palantir's Forward Deployed Software Engineer interview process in London, England.

Palantir Work Experiences

Good place to work for enterprise software development

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 26, 2020

Pros: * Good and smart colleagues * Working on important problems that make a difference in the world

Cons: Problems to work on are not always super technically challenging. It usually requires more on the communication, planning, and expectation management side.

Good place to work for enterprise software development

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 26, 2020

Pros: * Good and smart colleagues * Working on important problems that make a difference in the world

Cons: Problems to work on are not always super technically challenging. It usually requires more on the communication, planning, and expectation management side.

Great place to work

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: High impact, high opportunity for growth, talented colleagues.

Cons: Can be chaotic at times.

Great place to work

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: High impact, high opportunity for growth, talented colleagues.

Cons: Can be chaotic at times.

Great people, job feels boring at times

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: I met some of the smartest people I've seen in my life at Palantir. They're really great, mostly down-to-earth. The pay is well above the UK market.

Cons: Some segments of the business can be political. The job isn't very technically challenging.

Great people, job feels boring at times

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: I met some of the smartest people I've seen in my life at Palantir. They're really great, mostly down-to-earth. The pay is well above the UK market.

Cons: Some segments of the business can be political. The job isn't very technically challenging.

Good place to work for enterprise software development

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

February 26, 2020

Pros: * Good and smart colleagues * Working on important problems that make a difference in the world

Cons: Problems to work on are not always super technically challenging. It usually requires more on the communication, planning, and expectation management side.

5.0
Good place to work for enterprise software development
Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
February 26, 2020
Pros: * Good and smart colleagues * Working on important problems that make a difference in the world
Cons: Problems to work on are not always super technically challenging. It usually requires more on the communication, planning, and expectation management side.

Great place to work

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: High impact, high opportunity for growth, talented colleagues.

Cons: Can be chaotic at times.

4.0
Great place to work
Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
July 28, 2025
Pros: High impact, high opportunity for growth, talented colleagues.
Cons: Can be chaotic at times.

Great people, job feels boring at times

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: I met some of the smartest people I've seen in my life at Palantir. They're really great, mostly down-to-earth. The pay is well above the UK market.

Cons: Some segments of the business can be political. The job isn't very technically challenging.

4.0
Great people, job feels boring at times
Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
May 5, 2020
Pros: I met some of the smartest people I've seen in my life at Palantir. They're really great, mostly down-to-earth. The pay is well above the UK market.
Cons: Some segments of the business can be political. The job isn't very technically challenging.

Palantir Interview Questions

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I

Given a string and two substrings, find the indices where the first substring occurs. Then, find the indices where the second substring occurs. Return the indices of the first substring that are close to any index of the second substring, within a specified range.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

Smallest String With Swaps

You're given a string and a list of index pairs. You can swap characters at these indices any number of times. Find the lexicographically smallest string you can obtain after performing these swaps.

ArraysStringsGraphsGreedy Algorithms

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array II

You're given a string and two patterns. Find all 'beautiful' indices where an occurrence of the first pattern is within 'k' distance of an occurrence of the second pattern.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

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