Palantir·Software Engineer·Technical Phone Screen
Jun 2026
Resume deep dive at Palantir for a software engineer role. You pick a project, walk through it, and then they pepper you with follow-ups. The follow-ups were way less technical than I expected, mostly about process and decision-making.
- Walk me through a project you've worked on that you're proud of.
- How did you decide on the approach you took for that project? What alternatives did you consider?
- How did you handle uncertainty or changing requirements during the project?
“You get to pick the project, which sounds like a gift until you're mid-explanation and realize you picked something too complicated to summarize in 15 minutes.” 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.
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