Smart Engineers, Weak Management
Smart Engineers, Weak Management
The engineers I got to work with were smart, despite most of them being hired straight out of university. It was a great opportunity to learn from quality (though arguably inexperienced) engineers.
My mentor and team lead were quite ineffective at communication and giving feedback. My experience would have been much better if I had gotten more feedback more often.
Make sure the leads and mentors are good communicators.
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Palantir Interview Experiences
Software Engineer
Online HackerRank first, then a phone screen with an engineer, which was entirely behavioral. Then a technical interview, LC-style, with another engineer. Then a round of back-to-back interviews (learning/decomp). I didn't make it to the final round,
Software Engineer
Pretty standard OA with LC questions, which was followed by multiple technical interview rounds. The last round was with a HM. Questions were not too difficult, but not easy either. Unique process.
Software Engineer
This was a standard LeetCode medium question. I was asked to optimize twice, but I did not flesh out my answer much at the end. This led to not moving ahead in the interview process.
Software Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United StatesSeptember 1, 2025Online HackerRank first, then a phone screen with an engineer, which was entirely behavioral. Then a technical interview, LC-style, with another engineer. Then a round of back-to-back interviews (learning/decomp). I didn't make it to the final round,
Software Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United StatesJuly 1, 2025Pretty standard OA with LC questions, which was followed by multiple technical interview rounds. The last round was with a HM. Questions were not too difficult, but not easy either. Unique process.
Software Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United StatesMay 21, 2025This was a standard LeetCode medium question. I was asked to optimize twice, but I did not flesh out my answer much at the end. This led to not moving ahead in the interview process.
