Palantir

Software Engineer Interview Experience - United States

August 27, 2025

Positive ExperienceNo Offer

Process

The interview process includes:

Recruiter screening
Phone interview
Technical interview
System design interview

The technical and system design interviews are scheduled back-to-back. The recruiter will provide a guide on the interview process and tips for preparation.

Questions

Design a system for employees to look up and communicate with each other.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 275 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive44%

Neutral36%

Negative20%

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

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