I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2012
Interview
I was referred for an interview by a friend who works for Palantir. The communication with HR and the interviewer was good and prompt. Interview had a very "holier than thou" attitude and mentioned the fact that he attended Stanford repeatedly.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Interviewer was someone on the team I would potentially join. Did not seem like he had experience interviewing (first time perhaps?). He came off as very arrogant and not friendly. Questions included: "How would you describe what we do to a 3 year old;" "what is the Internet?"...