I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (London, England)
Interview
I was contacted by a recruiter through LinkedIn. She help me setup quickly a Skype interview with a Forward Deployed Engineer, which focused on my past work experiences and a technical question. The week after, I was invited onsite (London, UK) for half a day. I did 3 different interviews: a problem solving/coding one, a problem decomposition/design one and one with a PM about creating my own start-up (very challenging).
I received an offer 2 days later, which I accepted.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You want to create a start-up that suggests recipes based on ingredients in your customer's fridge. What do you do?
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Interview
Project build in foundry -> onsite -> hiring manager. Insanely slow process. It took them forever to get back to me after hiring manager, almost two full weeks. Almost excepted elsewhere in that time
First they just send you a phone screen to talk more about your background, why forward deployed vs normal swe, and some behavioral stuff. The first technical round was a code pair interview using hackerrank and microsoft teams. It was barely DSA, mainly just needed a for loop and hash table.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Do you know the different between forward deployed and normal SWE? Why do you want to do forward deployed?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (De Zoom)
Interview
A simple technical interview, first round after a recruiter call. Didn't require optimality just want the solution to run and work. Pretty longwinded solution needed, more about coding ability than about algorithm knowledge and implementation.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Card game question, multiple players with a hand of five ish cards, all players play a card, highest card wins each round. Determine the number of wins for each player.