I applied for the open position on LinkedIn and was contacted by a recruiter a week later. We had a quick introduction to the company and a few questions about my resume.

This was followed by an email asking me to speak with another recruiter a week later. I had a pleasant conversation with that recruiter and scheduled a phone interview with one of the employees a week after that.

After speaking with this employee, and another week later, I received another email inviting me for an in-house interview three weeks later. However, a recruiter reached out again in about a week's time and rescheduled me for an earlier time.

Just as others mentioned in their reviews, I met with four people in the morning, had lunch with the employee who interviewed me over the phone (which was rather pleasant), was given a tour of the building, watched a demo, and met with five other interviewers. At this point, I was expected to meet the CEO, but the coordinator came out with a t-shirt and suggested that I would have to speak with one more employee who wouldn't be available that day. They indicated they would need to call me back for additional interviews a week later.

After reading previous comments, I realized that this was probably the end of the process. I went ahead and contacted them as a follow-up, asking for the rescheduled date since I had received a job offer from another company and had to give an answer. However, I never heard back.

Overall, it was a very good experience, especially when you know ahead of time what to expect. I had great conversations with all but one of the interviewers. For some reason, I just couldn't "read" her, and I have a feeling she was the main reason I didn't move on. The rest were very pleasant and appeared to have enjoyed meeting with me. Most asked questions about previous experiences and were obviously looking for behavioral reactions and overall thought processes.

I was also given a few basic exercises to find bugs and write test cases.

The company seems to have a great atmosphere with a lot of young and very energetic employees working all kinds of hours to make users' lives better. The perks are very Silicon Valley-like, with plenty of food, snacks, beverages, games to play, etc.

The main con with this experience is the amount of time it takes to reach the company after initial contact is made. The process appears to be like a conveyor belt, with multiple candidates applying for the same position. Meeting all of them in the demo room is awkward, but once again, it appears to be a part of the process where several morning interviewers attended as well, most likely monitoring your behavior during the presentation, watching you ask questions, etc.

How did you hear about Palantir?

And "Why Palantir?" were asked by every single interviewer. After a few, it becomes inundated.