Palantir

Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - New York, New York

September 1, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The process included an OA -> LC style technical round -> Learning + Decomp round.

Decomp is similar to system design, while learning is something you cannot really prepare for.

Questions

Why do you want to join Palantir?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 8 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer New Grad role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

13%

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive75%

Neutral13%

Negative13%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer New Grad interview process in New York, New York.

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.

ArraysTwo PointersStrings

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.

ArraysStringsGraphs

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.

ArraysTwo PointersSliding Windows