Palantir Software Engineer Interview Questions

20+ Palantir Software Engineer interview questions drawn from real candidate reports. Sources include 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode. Questions span every stage of the Palantir Software Engineer loop: OA, phone screen, system design, behavioral, and onsite coding.

What to Expect in the Palantir Software Engineer Interview

The Palantir Software Engineer interview process typically runs 4 to 6 rounds depending on seniority level. Based on candidate reports in the LeakCode database, the loop usually includes a resume review, an online assessment or coding phone screen, one or more technical rounds, a system design round (for senior and above), and a behavioral or values round.

Difficulty skews toward medium and hard LeetCode-style problems in the coding rounds. System design questions test breadth (component selection, scaling, trade-off reasoning) more than deep implementation. Behavioral questions are tied to the company's stated values and principles.

Palantir Software Engineer Questions (Sample)

Forward Deployed Engineer" role?

2026 reddit

For context, I have 8+ YOE as SWE and previously started a company. EDIT: I am not talking about working at Palantir. just mentioning that the term came from there. I'm mostly talking about AI compani

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palantir software engineer fulltime tech phone screen interview experience

phone screen 2026 1p3a

海投 Palantir SDE 后收到 HR 联系。HR 话比较少,大概 10 分钟简单过了一下简历和背景,问了 why Palantir,然后直接店面。 店面 60 分钟:前 15 分钟问简历,也有 why Palantir;中间 coding;最后 5 分钟问问题。 题目和 LeetCode 近 30 天内的一道题非常像,核心思路基本一样,只是题目包装和问法换了一下。 求大米,谢谢!

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palantir onsite software engineer interview experience with detailed coding and system design

onsite 2026 1p3a

他家不难都是面经题,地里面经刷一下都是原题 如果觉得有帮助请加米谢谢! 电面 刷题网 伞溜溜凌 onsite1  有三轮technical,每一轮都会问点bq,问问简历上的项目 Coding round, 地里股票题,跟这题一模一样 https://www.1point3acres.com/bbs/thread-959070-1-1.html   Code review round : 城市道路,就是定义graph的时候用了好多class,看着很晕,注意用bfs做别把自己绕晕了,我根据记忆大概写了一下 定义 graph 的一些 class class Location {     String name;     public Location(String name) {         this.name = name;     } } class Road {     Location from;     Location to;     int distance;     public Road(Location from, Location...

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Palantir Learning Round Interview Experience and Tips

manager easy 2025 1p3a

I previously shared some information about Palantir interviews. It seems many people failed the learning section. So this time, I want to describe my and my friend's learning experience in detail. The

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Palantir HR Screen: Preparing for Recruiter Outreach in Job Search

recruiter 2025 1p3a

This was my first recruiter reachout rejection in three months of job hunting. It was probably because I was too impulsive and unprepared. They basically just asked about my work experience on my resu

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Palantir Onsite Interview Experience: Overcomplicated Technical Round

onsite hard 2025 1p3a

During the Palantir virtual onsite, I failed to complete the technical assessment within the time limit. I pursued an overly complex approach instead of a standard recursive solution, which prevented

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Palantir SWE Internship Interview Experience

oa easy 2025 reddit

For those of you about to undergo this journey, here is my experience (plz don't ask me what questions were asked): **Stage 1: Online Assessment** This shit was pretty awful, probably one of the harde

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Palantir FDSE Interview Experience (REJECTION~)

system design 2025 reddit

Hello Everyone, I gathered a lot of resources while preparing for my Palantir interview. Although things didn’t go in my favor, I wanted to share my experience and insights from the process: # Intervi

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Palantir Software Engineer Intern Interview - Onsite (Decomp/Learning)

onsite medium 2025 reddit

I recently had my coding interview with them and now got moved to the virtual onsite. It is 2 back to back interviews. Does anyone have any tips for the decomposition / live learning rounds? If anyone

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Palantir SDE Intern OA | Feb 2024

oa 2024 leetcode

Q1 A sports coach must ensure that two teams in a competition are equally strong. Teams A and B have n and m players. The players\' skill levels are stored...

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Palantir - NYC REJECT

phone screen 2024 leetcode

Phone Screen Same question as this https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/4866657/2024-03-Palantir-Tech-Screening Proposed 2 pointer approach, follow up question was for if the query has multiple words, how would u do it. I told some...

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Palantir Interview Process... So Far, FDSE 2024

oa hard 2024 reddit

Hi everyone. Wanted to give some guidance to my process thus far in the world of Palantir interviews and maybe get some feedback. (For context I've been a software engineer for 2.5 years) 1. Late Sept

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Palantir | Phone Screen Karat Interview

oa easy 2022 leetcode

Lately, I did my phone screen interview with a Karat engineer. Interview is over call over Karat website and coding is on the Karat Studio where there is an option to...

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Palantir | SDE New Grad | USA | Oct 2022 | [Reject after 5th round]

oa medium 2022 leetcode

Experience: 5 years [India (4), USA (1)] Education: Masters, Top tier University Total Interview duration: 2 months (from application to rejection email) Applied online in the month of September on their careers...

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#3006 Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I

coding medium lc_company

LeetCode #3006: Find Beautiful Indices in the Given Array I. Difficulty: Medium. Topics: Two Pointers, String, Binary Search, Rolling Hash, String Matching, Hash Function. Asked at Palantir in the last 6 months.

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Difficulty Breakdown

6

medium

4

easy

2

hard

Based on 20 questions with difficulty labels from candidate reports.

Interview Rounds

Here is how the Palantir Software Engineer questions in the LeakCode database break down by interview round, based on what candidates reported:

Round Questions in Database
oa 5
coding 4
phone screen 3
onsite 3
take home 1
system design 1

Most Common Topics

system design (5) arrays (4) graphs (3) behavioral (3) strings (1) linked list (1) concurrency (1)

Question Recency

3

2026

6

2025

3

2024

2

2022

Question counts by interview year, based on candidate-reported dates.

How to Prepare for the Palantir Software Engineer Interview

Use the LeakCode question database as your primary research tool. Filter by role (Software Engineer), then by round type to focus your prep on the specific stages in your upcoming loop. Sort by recency to see what 2026 candidates actually faced.

  • Start with questions from the last 12 months. Interview processes change and recent data is the strongest signal.
  • Cross-reference questions that appear in multiple sources (1p3a, Blind, Glassdoor). Multi-source confirmation means a question has stronger recurrence probability.
  • For system design rounds: focus on the question patterns, not individual questions. The same design principles recur across many prompts.
  • For behavioral rounds: map your experiences to the company's stated values before the interview. Most behavioral questions at top companies are derivatives of a small set of core leadership competencies.

FAQ

How many Palantir Software Engineer questions are in the database?

20+ questions from verified candidate reports. The count grows as new reports are scraped daily from 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode.

Are these questions from real Palantir interviews?

Yes. All questions are sourced from actual candidate interview reports, not generated by AI. Each entry links back to its source URL where available, and questions are tagged with the year and round reported by the candidate.

How current is this data?

LeakCode updates daily. The database is filtered to exclude duplicate and low-quality entries. You can filter by interview year to focus on recent cycles.

Does LeakCode cover Palantir OA questions specifically?

Yes. The database includes online assessment questions tagged with round type. See the Palantir OA page for a dedicated view.

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