Palantir

Software Engineer Internship Interview Experience

January 2, 2014

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Referred by a former intern, now a would-be employee.

Got an email from a recruiter a couple of weeks after that and was given an online coding challenge about a graph problem.

After solving it, the recruiter helped me set up an interview with another employee.

Got a standard rejection email after that.

Questions

I was asked to find the best buying/selling strategy given a list of stock prices.

Also, tell me more about yourself.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 6 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer Internship role in United States.

Success Rate

0%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive83%

Neutral17%

Negative0%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer Internship interview process in United States.

Palantir Work Experiences

Some of the brightest minds in the industry

Infrastructure Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 15, 2015

Pros: Talented, hard-working individuals. Lots of amenities. A great opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the smartest people in Silicon Valley.

Cons: Poor work-life balance, not suited for people with families. Very young middle management means that they're inexperienced and sometimes stumble on things that other managers wouldn't have issues with.

Some of the brightest minds in the industry

Infrastructure Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 15, 2015

Pros: Talented, hard-working individuals. Lots of amenities. A great opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the smartest people in Silicon Valley.

Cons: Poor work-life balance, not suited for people with families. Very young middle management means that they're inexperienced and sometimes stumble on things that other managers wouldn't have issues with.

Great place to work, love the perks!

Software Engineer II • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

January 17, 2019

Pros: I learned how to code on the internet about two weeks before they hired me and was still able to have a great experience. I was surrounded by people of similar experience levels, so we were all able to learn together.

Cons: The kitchen operations analysts didn't appropriately plan for my gluten sensitivity, and they offered genetically modified food! NOT acceptable.

Great place to work, love the perks!

Software Engineer II • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

January 17, 2019

Pros: I learned how to code on the internet about two weeks before they hired me and was still able to have a great experience. I was surrounded by people of similar experience levels, so we were all able to learn together.

Cons: The kitchen operations analysts didn't appropriately plan for my gluten sensitivity, and they offered genetically modified food! NOT acceptable.

Good workplace

SWE New Grad • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Salary, environment, benefits, and a lot of others.

Cons: Work-life balance, stress and...

SWE New Grad • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Salary, environment, benefits, and a lot of others.

Cons: Work-life balance, stress and...

Some of the brightest minds in the industry

Infrastructure Quality Engineer • Current Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

October 15, 2015

Pros: Talented, hard-working individuals. Lots of amenities. A great opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the smartest people in Silicon Valley.

Cons: Poor work-life balance, not suited for people with families. Very young middle management means that they're inexperienced and sometimes stumble on things that other managers wouldn't have issues with.

5.0
Some of the brightest minds in the industry
Infrastructure Quality Engineer • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
October 15, 2015
Pros: Talented, hard-working individuals. Lots of amenities. A great opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the smartest people in Silicon Valley.
Cons: Poor work-life balance, not suited for people with families. Very young middle management means that they're inexperienced and sometimes stumble on things that other managers wouldn't have issues with.

Great place to work, love the perks!

Software Engineer II • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

January 17, 2019

Pros: I learned how to code on the internet about two weeks before they hired me and was still able to have a great experience. I was surrounded by people of similar experience levels, so we were all able to learn together.

Cons: The kitchen operations analysts didn't appropriately plan for my gluten sensitivity, and they offered genetically modified food! NOT acceptable.

5.0
Great place to work, love the perks!
Software Engineer II • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
January 17, 2019
Pros: I learned how to code on the internet about two weeks before they hired me and was still able to have a great experience. I was surrounded by people of similar experience levels, so we were all able to learn together.
Cons: The kitchen operations analysts didn't appropriately plan for my gluten sensitivity, and they offered genetically modified food! NOT acceptable.

Good workplace

SWE New Grad • Current Employee

London, England, United Kingdom

Pros: Salary, environment, benefits, and a lot of others.

Cons: Work-life balance, stress and...

5.0
Good workplace
SWE New Grad • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
August 2, 2022
Pros: Salary, environment, benefits, and a lot of others.
Cons: Work-life balance, stress and...

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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