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Palantir

Builds data integration and analytics software, including Foundry, Gotham and AIP, for governments and companies.

Not known4 stage process documentedFounded 2003
Headquarters

Denver, Colorado, United States

Headcount

5,000 and up

5,000 or more people
Work model

Not known

Hiring

Not known

Not enough signal to say. Check the careers page directly.
Where to apply

No careers page on file yet. Try their LinkedIn or the job boards below.

Website

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Open internships

How they hire

Reported to take about three to four weeks for mid and senior software engineers. Candidates report that AI tools are not allowed in any interview.

  1. 1

    Recruiter call

    Reported
    Recruiter screen30 minutesRemote

    A screen that weighs motivation and alignment with Palantir’s mission heavily; candidates report that surface-level reasons for joining get strong engineers rejected.

  2. 2

    Technical phone screen

    Reported
    Live coding1 hoursRemote

    Coding in CodePair, framed around building something for end users, with some behavioural questions.

    Coding
  3. 3

    Onsite: three of four interview types

    Reported
    Panel interview

    Three hour-long interviews drawn from problem decomposition, system design, coding, and re-engineering (debugging a long, unfamiliar piece of code), each followed by behavioural questions. Decomposition is almost always included.

    DecompositionSystem designCodingDebugging
  4. 4

    Hiring manager interview

    Reported
    Hiring manager1 hours

    A final hour that often revisits a weaker area from the onsite or probes motivation.

What comes up

Recurring themes from candidate accounts, not a question bank. Nobody is served by leaked question lists, least of all you in the interview.

  • Problem decomposition

    Reported

    Open-ended real-world problems, such as helping elderly people with poor vision cook for themselves, where you scope user needs and sketch a high-level system.

  • Reading unfamiliar code

    Reported

    The re-engineering round asks you to find bugs in several hundred lines of code while avoiding red herrings.

  • Mission and values fit

    Reported

    Behavioural questions run through every round, including comfort discussing civil liberties and the impact of Palantir’s work.

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What it pays

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Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

Universities they recruit from

No sourced university links yet. A campus drive, a career fair appearance or an internship partnership is what puts a university here.

Add to the Palantir page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

How to actually get seen

Practise decomposition out loud: clarify who the users are, scope the problem, then sketch the system, since that round is the one most candidates find unfamiliar. Have a specific, well-considered reason for wanting to work at Palantir.

Sources

Whole profile last checked 2026-09-22.

Interviewed at Palantir? Fill in what changed.

Processes change, rounds get added, tests get replaced. If what you went through was different from what is on this page, tell me and I will update it.

Want me to refer you here?

Send me the role, your CV and a few honest paragraphs on why you fit it. Where I know someone inside and your profile matches, I will make the introduction. Where I cannot, I will tell you why and point you at the route that does work. You get an answer either way.

Ask for a referral to Palantir

A referral only means something if the person giving it can actually speak to your work. I will refer you where I know someone on the inside and your profile genuinely fits the role, and I will tell you plainly when I cannot. Either way you get an answer, and a straight one.

  • I read every request. A reply takes a few days, sometimes longer.
  • I will not refer someone for a role their profile does not fit. It wastes your time and costs me the contact.
  • Where I cannot refer you, I will say why, and point you at the way in that does work.
  • Nothing you send here is shared with anyone without you agreeing to it first.

If you found the opening, paste it. It tells me which team you mean.

A Drive, Dropbox or personal-site link is fine. Make sure it opens without a request for access, or I cannot read it.

At least a short paragraph. This is what I would be putting my name behind, so specifics beat adjectives.

Comma separated, up to six. Things you would be happy to be tested on.

Add to the Palantir page

This library is only as good as what people who have been through it are willing to share. Most of these companies have no hiring process documented anywhere, and one account of what the rounds actually were is worth more than anything I can research from the outside.

What are you adding?

This decides how the claim is labelled on the page. Only someone representing the company can produce an “official” label, and I check that separately.

Year and month.

Comma separated topics, not the questions themselves.

Round by round is ideal: what each one was, how long, remote or in person, and what it covered.

Credit

Anonymous is the default. If you keep it anonymous, nothing identifying you reaches the page: it is published as a candidate account and your name stays with me. Never send anything covered by an NDA, and never send a take-home or a question paper.

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