Palantir

SWE Intern Interview Experience - New York, New York

October 24, 2025

Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Really long process overall: recruiter call -> phone screen -> virtual onsite -> final HM round. Recruiter was friendly. Rejected after HM round. HM round was also a combination of the weakest previous round with a behavioral part.

Questions

Why Palantir specifically? Fit question, grilled about why Palantir and not other places.

Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 9 interview experiences for the Palantir SWE Intern role in New York, New York.

Success Rate

Pass Rate

Palantir's interview process for their SWE Intern roles in New York, New York is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

Positive22%

Neutral67%

Negative11%

Candidates reported having good feelings for Palantir's SWE Intern interview process in New York, New York.

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