1. Received a link to do an online HackerRank problem. The problem statement was long, but not terribly difficult.

2. Four weeks passed with no response. I reached out to my recruiter asking if there would be further steps and got an interview with a recruiter set up for a week later. Standard behavioral questions were asked, with an emphasis on why Palantir.

3. Had a technical phone screen set up for a week later. The interviewer mistakenly called me a day early but was apologetic, and we still proceeded with the interview the next day. It was a pretty simple array and string parsing question through HackerRank codepair.

4. Things got a bit weird. I sent a message indicating that I had offer deadlines in a few weeks and received a rejection about an hour later. Then I got a call later saying it would be tough to work with my deadlines, but they would still like me to do an on-site. We scheduled one for 10 days later.

5. The on-site was done very well (I interviewed in DC). Meals were generously taken care of, and the hotel was lovely. The interviews consisted of three technical interviews: a problem-solving (i.e., LeetCode/HackerRank-style) question, then a debugging session on a laptop, then a decomp interview, followed by a product demo. After the product demo, I was kept for a final interview with a hiring manager that was a more 'real-world' problem-solving question. I felt very confident at this point.

6. This was easily the worst part about the process. I received a call about a week later asking for another interview with a hiring manager for their NY office. I was told this would be mostly behavioral with some small problem-solving portion. Then I got an email twenty minutes later asking if I could interview in twenty minutes. So, 45 minutes from when I received the call, I was interviewing again. The first twenty minutes were as expected with behavioral questions, but then we did 45 minutes worth of an in-depth technical question that was more difficult than what I had seen on-site. At this point, I felt as though my time was disregarded and that I was misled on the interview content. Needless to say, it left a bad taste in my mouth about Palantir's hiring process.

7. Received a rejection call the next day.

Overall, the process was drawn out and, while alright during the middle phases, felt disrespectful towards the end.

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