Palantir

Forward Deployed Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

June 23, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I had the decomposition interview.

They give you zero information going in.

It's about 20 minutes, followed by a 25-minute coding question.

I thought both were fairly easy and that I did well, but I still got rejected.

Questions

Decompose an internal LinkedIn-like system.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 124 interview experiences for the Palantir Forward Deployed Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

10%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive45%

Neutral31%

Negative23%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Palantir's Forward Deployed Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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