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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Canada

January 1, 2016

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I solved a HackerRank question. The process was very automated but fair.

I did not feel that the question was too difficult. Since I did not receive an offer for the next round, my code must have been not up to par.

Questions

Explain how you would design Netflix and how the data would be stored.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer role in Canada.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive22%

Neutral33%

Negative44%

Candidates reported having negative feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer interview process in Canada.

Palantir Work Experiences

5.0

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.

ArraysStringsTwo Pointers

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.

ArraysStringsGraphsGreedy Algorithms

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.