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Software Engineer Interview Experience

March 7, 2015
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online and was contacted by the recruiter after a month.

Initially, one 45-minute phone interview was planned, but after that, they conducted one more 45-minute interview. This was somewhat tough.

Questions

  1. Finding duplicate entries in an integer array.

There were variations of this problem, such as finding a duplicate entry only if it was within a specific index range, or finding values that were not actual duplicates but fell within a certain range.

  1. Given an array as input, find the output array that contains the median of each subarray whose index starts from 0 to i (where i = 1, 2, ... array.length - 1).

I took a lot of time to understand what a median is, and then to understand the actual question.

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The following metrics were computed from 304 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

6%
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%

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