Palantir

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Overland Park, Kansas

October 1, 2018

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

I was contacted via LinkedIn, which transitioned into one recruiter phone screen.

Then, there were two technical HackerRank interviews, each with one coding question.

This was a very terrible interview process.

They also focused more on coding rather than DevOps Engineering, which I had originally stated I was only interested in.

Questions

Describe to me about yourself and your current role.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Palantir Software Engineer role in Overland Park, Kansas.

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Pass Rate

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

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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer interview process in Overland Park, Kansas.

Palantir Work Experiences

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Software Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: It is a company that pays money and offers benefits. It has employees who are all in the same boat.

Cons: Leadership under AK are shells of people. I would say so much more, but simply put: Don't.

Hard to put into words

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: It is a company that pays money and offers benefits. It has employees who are all in the same boat.

Cons: Leadership under AK are shells of people. I would say so much more, but simply put: Don't.

Good place for great engineering!

Software Engineer • Former Employee

January 29, 2020

Pros: Interesting clients, good pay, interesting problems.

Cons: Travel, reputation, career progression, location.

Good place for great engineering!

Software Engineer • Former Employee

January 29, 2020

Pros: Interesting clients, good pay, interesting problems.

Cons: Travel, reputation, career progression, location.

Amazing people, great tech, long hours

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: People are amazing; the hiring quality is out of this world even for the Valley. Projects can be extremely interesting. Tech stack (especially on the Foundry side) is modern and fun to use. The software is real and works unlike most enterprise technology Palantir competes against.

Cons: Work/life balance is highly project dependent. Long hours trend towards brutal if your project is fast-paced or the customer is overly demanding. Your project may not be all that interesting, and you'll hear about everyone else doing world-changing tech. If your project is uninteresting and has long hours, you can burn out fast. Some of the Gotham codebase is archaic and hard to understand. Palantir changes over time, and you'll need to adapt or reinvent yourself if you stay longer than two years. This can be fun but stressful, and the pace never slows down.

Amazing people, great tech, long hours

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: People are amazing; the hiring quality is out of this world even for the Valley. Projects can be extremely interesting. Tech stack (especially on the Foundry side) is modern and fun to use. The software is real and works unlike most enterprise technology Palantir competes against.

Cons: Work/life balance is highly project dependent. Long hours trend towards brutal if your project is fast-paced or the customer is overly demanding. Your project may not be all that interesting, and you'll hear about everyone else doing world-changing tech. If your project is uninteresting and has long hours, you can burn out fast. Some of the Gotham codebase is archaic and hard to understand. Palantir changes over time, and you'll need to adapt or reinvent yourself if you stay longer than two years. This can be fun but stressful, and the pace never slows down.

Hard to put into words

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Palo Alto, California, United States

Pros: It is a company that pays money and offers benefits. It has employees who are all in the same boat.

Cons: Leadership under AK are shells of people. I would say so much more, but simply put: Don't.

1.0
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Software Engineer • Former Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
May 29, 2025
Pros: It is a company that pays money and offers benefits. It has employees who are all in the same boat.
Cons: Leadership under AK are shells of people. I would say so much more, but simply put: Don't.

Good place for great engineering!

Software Engineer • Former Employee

January 29, 2020

Pros: Interesting clients, good pay, interesting problems.

Cons: Travel, reputation, career progression, location.

5.0
Good place for great engineering!
Software Engineer • Former Employee
January 29, 2020
Pros: Interesting clients, good pay, interesting problems.
Cons: Travel, reputation, career progression, location.

Amazing people, great tech, long hours

Software Engineer • Former Employee

Pros: People are amazing; the hiring quality is out of this world even for the Valley. Projects can be extremely interesting. Tech stack (especially on the Foundry side) is modern and fun to use. The software is real and works unlike most enterprise technology Palantir competes against.

Cons: Work/life balance is highly project dependent. Long hours trend towards brutal if your project is fast-paced or the customer is overly demanding. Your project may not be all that interesting, and you'll hear about everyone else doing world-changing tech. If your project is uninteresting and has long hours, you can burn out fast. Some of the Gotham codebase is archaic and hard to understand. Palantir changes over time, and you'll need to adapt or reinvent yourself if you stay longer than two years. This can be fun but stressful, and the pace never slows down.

5.0
Amazing people, great tech, long hours
Software Engineer • Former Employee
June 12, 2021
Pros: People are amazing; the hiring quality is out of this world even for the Valley. Projects can be extremely interesting. Tech stack (especially on the Foundry side) is modern and fun to use. The software is real and works unlike most enterprise technology Palantir competes against.
Cons: Work/life balance is highly project dependent. Long hours trend towards brutal if your project is fast-paced or the customer is overly demanding. Your project may not be all that interesting, and you'll hear about everyone else doing world-changing tech. If your project is uninteresting and has long hours, you can burn out fast. Some of the Gotham codebase is archaic and hard to understand. Palantir changes over time, and you'll need to adapt or reinvent yourself if you stay longer than two years. This can be fun but stressful, and the pace never slows down.

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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