First, I had to fill out an online coding test at HackerRank. It was pretty simple -- I had 3 hours to complete two basic programming questions.

Then, there was a phone interview. I was asked to expand on certain things I've written on my resume, and I had to quickly solve a programming problem.

A few days later, I received an email inviting me for an on-site interview at their Palo Alto offices. The process took the entire morning, ending early afternoon.

I had to do three coding interviews back-to-back. Thankfully, the interviewers were all extremely nice and friendly, and there was a snack bar nearby to keep my brain fed. The Palantir blog has a lot of tips on how to interview, and they came in really handy in helping me decipher the coding problems. I highly recommend reading through all the posts.

After the three interviews, I ate lunch with a Palantir engineer. Then, some other Palantir engineer demonstrated to the morning batch of interviewees how Palantir software worked.

Side note: They were doing massive amounts of recruitment. According to the shuttle driver, there had been about 20 people coming in every day for the past few weekends.

Tell me the story of how you became who you are today and what made you apply to Palantir.