Palantir

Software Engineer Interview Experience - Washington, District of Columbia

June 10, 2025

Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Short interview - First Round.

It included an online interview meeting format, and the next step would have included more.

There was a LeetCode medium problem and a short systems design question.

The interview was based in Eastern Standard Time.

Questions

They asked about salary expectations.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 11 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer role in Washington, District of Columbia.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

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

Experience Rating

Positive55%

Neutral27%

Negative18%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer interview process in Washington, District of Columbia.

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