Company profile
Palantir
Palantir builds Foundry, Gotham, and the AIP platform, deployed across US/UK government, defense, and large enterprise customers. The Forward Deployed Engineer loop is its signature - expect a long technical screen, a customer-empathy interview, and a candid conversation about your tolerance for travel, ambiguity, and politically-charged customer environments.
The Palantir interview process
Palantir's signature is the Forward Deployed Engineer loop. Expect a long technical screen, a customer-empathy interview, and a candid conversation about your tolerance for travel, ambiguity, and politically charged customer environments. Product-engineering tracks differ, but the customer-facing intensity runs through all of them.
- 1
Recruiter screen
Background and appetite for customer-facing work.
- 2
Technical screen (long)
Extended coding and problem solving.
- 3
Onsite technical
Design and applied problem solving on realistic data.
- 4
Customer empathy and fit
Handling ambiguity, travel, and tough customer settings.
What Palantir is looking for
What they value
- Solving open-ended problems with messy data
- Empathy for the customer's actual situation
- Tolerance for travel and uncertainty
Culture signals in the loop
- Comfort with ambiguity and shifting requirements
- Willingness to sit close to hard customer problems
- Mission orientation around the company's work
Questions and process by role
Palantir hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- Analytics engineer
Analytics engineer interview questions and process at Palantir.
data - BI engineer
BI engineer interview questions and process at Palantir.
data - Data engineer
Data engineer interview questions and process at Palantir.
data - Data platform engineer
Data platform engineer interview questions and process at Palantir.
data - Data scientist
Data scientist interview questions and process at Palantir.
data - ETL engineer
ETL engineer interview questions and process at Palantir.
data - ML engineer
ML engineer interview questions and process at Palantir.
engineering - AI engineer
AI engineer interview questions and process at Palantir.
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Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for Palantir's core roles, anchored to Denver and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not Palantir offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
Palantir holds a 4.0 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 4.0