Palantir

Software Development Intern Interview Experience - Palo Alto, California

October 1, 2011

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Please be as detailed as possible – everything from your initial communications with the company, organization, and planning of the interview, number and type of interviews, and any advice you might offer to other interview candidates.

Bonus points for your perceptions of the people, office, and work culture.

Questions

Given a bag of nuts and a bag of bolts, each having a different size within a bag but exactly one match in the other bag, provide a fast algorithm to find all matches.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Palantir Software Development Intern role in Palo Alto, California.

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Pass Rate

Palantir's interview process for their Software Development Intern roles in Palo Alto, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

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Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Palantir's Software Development Intern interview process in Palo Alto, California.

Palantir Work Experiences

Great culture, great tech

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

February 17, 2017

Pros: Palantir's products help with life and death decisions on a daily basis. The work is incredibly meaningful.

Cons: This is not a "rest and vest" company--people are expected to contribute significantly.

Great culture, great tech

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

February 17, 2017

Pros: Palantir's products help with life and death decisions on a daily basis. The work is incredibly meaningful.

Cons: This is not a "rest and vest" company--people are expected to contribute significantly.

Interesting Work, Growing Pains

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: They deal with some very interesting problems.

Cons: Management is going through growing pains and doesn't know how to allocate work properly. Sometimes it seemed fairly haphazard in organizing. Pressure to work a ton.

Interesting Work, Growing Pains

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: They deal with some very interesting problems.

Cons: Management is going through growing pains and doesn't know how to allocate work properly. Sometimes it seemed fairly haphazard in organizing. Pressure to work a ton.

Best place to learn and improve yourself

Software Developer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: This is one of the best places to meet extremely talented peers, and you will always be challenged to do great things. Teams are small, and there's plenty of innovation going on. It's a great learning experience.

Cons: Palantir is not really a startup anymore.

Best place to learn and improve yourself

Software Developer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: This is one of the best places to meet extremely talented peers, and you will always be challenged to do great things. Teams are small, and there's plenty of innovation going on. It's a great learning experience.

Cons: Palantir is not really a startup anymore.

Great culture, great tech

Software Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

February 17, 2017

Pros: Palantir's products help with life and death decisions on a daily basis. The work is incredibly meaningful.

Cons: This is not a "rest and vest" company--people are expected to contribute significantly.

5.0
Great culture, great tech
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
February 17, 2017
Pros: Palantir's products help with life and death decisions on a daily basis. The work is incredibly meaningful.
Cons: This is not a "rest and vest" company--people are expected to contribute significantly.

Interesting Work, Growing Pains

Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: They deal with some very interesting problems.

Cons: Management is going through growing pains and doesn't know how to allocate work properly. Sometimes it seemed fairly haphazard in organizing. Pressure to work a ton.

4.0
Interesting Work, Growing Pains
Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
March 15, 2014
Pros: They deal with some very interesting problems.
Cons: Management is going through growing pains and doesn't know how to allocate work properly. Sometimes it seemed fairly haphazard in organizing. Pressure to work a ton.

Best place to learn and improve yourself

Software Developer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: This is one of the best places to meet extremely talented peers, and you will always be challenged to do great things. Teams are small, and there's plenty of innovation going on. It's a great learning experience.

Cons: Palantir is not really a startup anymore.

4.0
Best place to learn and improve yourself
Software Developer • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
April 17, 2012
Pros: This is one of the best places to meet extremely talented peers, and you will always be challenged to do great things. Teams are small, and there's plenty of innovation going on. It's a great learning experience.
Cons: Palantir is not really a startup anymore.

Palantir Interview Questions

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I

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.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

Smallest String With Swaps

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.

ArraysStringsGraphsGreedy Algorithms

Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array II

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.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

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