Palantir

Forward Deployed Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

June 1, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process is very smooth. The first part is a call with a recruiter, usually 20-30 minutes, talking about past experience and projects, including school and future plans/any offers.

Next is a HackerRank OA, followed by another coding interview with an engineer.

Questions

How do your goals align with Palantir's goals?

What is your primary motivation for joining Palantir?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 28 interview experiences for the Palantir Forward Deployed Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

14%

Pass Rate

Palantir's interview process for their Forward Deployed Software Engineer roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive50%

Neutral29%

Negative21%

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

Palantir Interview Questions

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I

Medium

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.

ArraysTwo PointersStrings

Smallest String With Swaps

Medium

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.

ArraysStringsGraphs

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array II

Hard

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.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows