Palantir

Software Engineer New Grad Interview Experience - United States

October 3, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied to position. The first round is a 15-minute recruiter intro phone call, before any LeetCode questions are asked.

Questions covered:

Why this company
Experiences on the resume
Basic background info (sponsorship, willingness to relocate)

The next rounds should include technical questions and coding.

Questions

What is your favorite project?

Why Palantir?

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Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

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Neutral26%

Negative26%

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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