Palantir interview notes, page 1 of 3

“Knew this was coming and still fumbled it a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core idea clicked pretty fast once I thought about it as a load balancing problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic weighted shortest path setup, so Dijkstra is the obvious answer.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I had a decent story here but I spent too long on the setup and barely got to what I actually did.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Lost a solid 10 minutes convinced there was some logic bug in my approach.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This felt like five questions crammed into one.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one tripped me up a bit because my first instinct was to pick a story where I came out looking good.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with the usual capacity planning stuff out of habit and the interviewer kind of redirected me pretty quickly.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Always awkward to go first on this.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty standard opener.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Palantir, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.