Front End Engineer Interview Experience - San Francisco, California
Process
I applied online and a couple of days later heard back from a recruiter who was really nice. They asked me about my interests and background. The next day, I received an email scheduling a phone interview. I was excited for the interview but disappointed when the interviewer was not only very late calling me but also sounded completely bored the whole time.
She didn't ask me about my interests at all. When I asked her questions about the company, such as, "Is Palantir currently profitable?" she didn't know any of them. She told me they were trying to give a new face to their UI, then we launched into the technical interview. The technical interview wasn't front-end at all. It was like a really vague hashmap/linked list problem that really threw me, as I was expecting JavaScript questions for a front-end interview. Overall, she was pretty rude, and I decided pretty much at the beginning of the interview that I would never want to work there.
Questions
A question involving an API's integration with a hash map, where the buckets of the hash map are made up of linked lists.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Palantir Front End Engineer role in San Francisco, California.
Success Rate
Palantir's interview process for their Front End Engineer roles in San Francisco, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Palantir's Front End Engineer interview process in San Francisco, California.
Palantir Work Experiences
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