Software Engineer (Internship) Interview Experience
September 23, 2024
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer
Process
Got a HackerRank OA with a LeetCode medium/hard, SQL, and API parsing.
Was given about two hours to complete all of these. Overall, it was not bad, but you should come prepared with knowledge about basics (like JavaScript async functions).
Questions
LeetCode was 1-D DP. The SQL query used joins and aggregate functions.
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 93 interview experiences for the Palantir Software Engineer (Internship) role in United States.
Success Rate
6%
Pass Rate
Palantir's interview process for their Software Engineer (Internship) roles in the United States is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
Positive37%
Neutral49%
Negative14%
Candidates reported having good feelings for Palantir's Software Engineer (Internship) interview process in United States.
Palantir Work Experiences
4.0
Fast-paced and lots of exposure, but long hours and a sink-or-swim culture
Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Current Employee
London, England, United Kingdom
September 10, 2025
Pros: A very agile and action-oriented environment. FDEs are encouraged to find a need in the project and develop their own slice of it. Resourcing responds to this by moving you to other projects that can best make use of the spike you've demonstrated in the process.
You can quickly build on Foundry. Tackling technical problems at a high level means you get a huge amount of exposure to different problem spaces.
Cons: It can be a very sink or swim environment.
It's also not as technical as your usual software engineering roles, as you're generally building on top of Foundry, which is already a well-built-out platform.
Depending on your project, you can be frequently working long hours.
5.0
Phenomenal Mission, Autonomy Galore
Forward Deployed Software Engineer • Former Employee
September 28, 2021
Pros: Phenomenal mission, combined with incredible autonomy.
Cons: Lots of autonomy may not be the right thing for some people.
5.0
A contagious drive to make the world better
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Palo Alto, California, United States
August 4, 2016
Pros: - Brilliant people, domain experts, quick thinkers, constructively critical.
- Opportunity to solve problems and impact a variety of institutions and domains that doesn't exist anywhere else.
- Teammates honestly depend on the hard work of each other, and it keeps us moving forward.
- Great culture of working hard on important, high-stakes work and supporting the people you're working with. Not super political.
Cons: If you don't know how to prioritize your own work/life balance, you will have to learn.
The sensitive nature of certain work requires secrecy, which can often be perceived as malintent by default.
- 4.0Fast-paced and lots of exposure, but long hours and a sink-or-swim cultureForward Deployed Software Engineer • Current EmployeeLondon, England, United KingdomSeptember 10, 2025Pros: A very agile and action-oriented environment. FDEs are encouraged to find a need in the project and develop their own slice of it. Resourcing responds to this by moving you to other projects that can best make use of the spike you've demonstrated in the process. You can quickly build on Foundry. Tackling technical problems at a high level means you get a huge amount of exposure to different problem spaces.Cons: It can be a very sink or swim environment. It's also not as technical as your usual software engineering roles, as you're generally building on top of Foundry, which is already a well-built-out platform. Depending on your project, you can be frequently working long hours.
- 5.0Phenomenal Mission, Autonomy GaloreForward Deployed Software Engineer • Former EmployeeSeptember 28, 2021Pros: Phenomenal mission, combined with incredible autonomy.Cons: Lots of autonomy may not be the right thing for some people.
- 5.0A contagious drive to make the world betterSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeePalo Alto, California, United StatesAugust 4, 2016Pros: - Brilliant people, domain experts, quick thinkers, constructively critical. - Opportunity to solve problems and impact a variety of institutions and domains that doesn't exist anywhere else. - Teammates honestly depend on the hard work of each other, and it keeps us moving forward. - Great culture of working hard on important, high-stakes work and supporting the people you're working with. Not super political.Cons: If you don't know how to prioritize your own work/life balance, you will have to learn. The sensitive nature of certain work requires secrecy, which can often be perceived as malintent by default.
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