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Software Engineer Intern Interview Experience - United Kingdom

January 1, 2021

Negative ExperienceGot Offer

Process

After applying, if they like your CV, you're given the opportunity to do a coding test before the interview. The coding test is extremely difficult, and you have only about 30 minutes.

Questions

Design a program to determine typosquatters.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 5 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer Intern role in United Kingdom.

Success Rate

20%

Pass Rate

Palantir's interview process for their Software Engineer Intern roles in the United Kingdom is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive20%

Neutral60%

Negative20%

Candidates reported having mixed feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer Intern interview process in United Kingdom.

Palantir Work Experiences

Great place to intern

Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: - Complete ownership of an important company project, although it is a little daunting in the beginning. - Very supportive culture that is willing to offer lots of guidance; I never felt completely lost. - Laidback working environment; I came into the office at 10 am most days. - Decent work-life balance as a SWE (may be different for FDEs), pretty consistent 40-hour work week. - Everyone puts a lot of interest into your career growth; they want to see you enjoy and succeed at your work. My mentor and lead were amazing. - Get to travel a bunch even as an intern, which is super cool!

Cons: Fewer intern social events than I expected, at least in the NY office.

Great place to intern

Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: - Complete ownership of an important company project, although it is a little daunting in the beginning. - Very supportive culture that is willing to offer lots of guidance; I never felt completely lost. - Laidback working environment; I came into the office at 10 am most days. - Decent work-life balance as a SWE (may be different for FDEs), pretty consistent 40-hour work week. - Everyone puts a lot of interest into your career growth; they want to see you enjoy and succeed at your work. My mentor and lead were amazing. - Get to travel a bunch even as an intern, which is super cool!

Cons: Fewer intern social events than I expected, at least in the NY office.

Good People, Confusing Hierarchy

Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee

November 16, 2023

Pros: Great pay and benefits; people are great.

Cons: The flat hierarchy makes it unclear at times who you're meant to report to, and the overall vibe is a little too competitive and secretive.

Good People, Confusing Hierarchy

Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee

November 16, 2023

Pros: Great pay and benefits; people are great.

Cons: The flat hierarchy makes it unclear at times who you're meant to report to, and the overall vibe is a little too competitive and secretive.

Great internship for learning

Software Engineer Intern • Current Employee

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Pros: Fast-paced, friendly, and open culture.

Cons: If you're not interested in government, intelligence, or defense, then you may be turned off by about half of the business. That said, there's the other half of the business that's not that. I happen to be interested in all of it, so it's great! Not enough female engineers; some teams are all male.

Great internship for learning

Software Engineer Intern • Current Employee

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Pros: Fast-paced, friendly, and open culture.

Cons: If you're not interested in government, intelligence, or defense, then you may be turned off by about half of the business. That said, there's the other half of the business that's not that. I happen to be interested in all of it, so it's great! Not enough female engineers; some teams are all male.

Great place to intern

Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee

New York, New York, United States

Pros: - Complete ownership of an important company project, although it is a little daunting in the beginning. - Very supportive culture that is willing to offer lots of guidance; I never felt completely lost. - Laidback working environment; I came into the office at 10 am most days. - Decent work-life balance as a SWE (may be different for FDEs), pretty consistent 40-hour work week. - Everyone puts a lot of interest into your career growth; they want to see you enjoy and succeed at your work. My mentor and lead were amazing. - Get to travel a bunch even as an intern, which is super cool!

Cons: Fewer intern social events than I expected, at least in the NY office.

5.0
Great place to intern
Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee
New York, New York, United States
March 30, 2023
Pros: - Complete ownership of an important company project, although it is a little daunting in the beginning. - Very supportive culture that is willing to offer lots of guidance; I never felt completely lost. - Laidback working environment; I came into the office at 10 am most days. - Decent work-life balance as a SWE (may be different for FDEs), pretty consistent 40-hour work week. - Everyone puts a lot of interest into your career growth; they want to see you enjoy and succeed at your work. My mentor and lead were amazing. - Get to travel a bunch even as an intern, which is super cool!
Cons: Fewer intern social events than I expected, at least in the NY office.

Good People, Confusing Hierarchy

Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee

November 16, 2023

Pros: Great pay and benefits; people are great.

Cons: The flat hierarchy makes it unclear at times who you're meant to report to, and the overall vibe is a little too competitive and secretive.

3.0
Good People, Confusing Hierarchy
Software Engineer Intern • Former Employee
November 16, 2023
Pros: Great pay and benefits; people are great.
Cons: The flat hierarchy makes it unclear at times who you're meant to report to, and the overall vibe is a little too competitive and secretive.

Great internship for learning

Software Engineer Intern • Current Employee

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Pros: Fast-paced, friendly, and open culture.

Cons: If you're not interested in government, intelligence, or defense, then you may be turned off by about half of the business. That said, there's the other half of the business that's not that. I happen to be interested in all of it, so it's great! Not enough female engineers; some teams are all male.

5.0
Great internship for learning
Software Engineer Intern • Current Employee
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
July 18, 2021
Pros: Fast-paced, friendly, and open culture.
Cons: If you're not interested in government, intelligence, or defense, then you may be turned off by about half of the business. That said, there's the other half of the business that's not that. I happen to be interested in all of it, so it's great! Not enough female engineers; some teams are all male.

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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