Palantir

Software Engineer Interview Experience - New York, New York

August 12, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

One phone screen. It included generic behavioral questions, followed by a technical assessment.

The technical portion involved parsing data and efficiently storing and manipulating it to create an output. This required knowledge of hash maps and sorting.

Questions

Why do you want to work at Palantir?

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 40 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive40%

Neutral35%

Negative25%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer 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