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Design a system to help a delivery driver decide which food orders to pick up, then extend it to how the platform assigns orders at scale.
5 months ago
Design a pipeline that ingests terabytes of sensor data in mixed formats like JSON, CSV, and XML, then surfaces failure predictions to a non-technical end-user.
5 months ago
Design an application to catalog and log species while exploring an unfamiliar environment.
5 months ago
Why FDSE?
a year ago
What are the things you are weakest in that might make you not succeed here?
a year ago
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Walk me through the specific metrics and trade-offs from a project you owned.
6 months ago
Given a binary array where an operation cycles a row's elements to the left or right, return the minimum number of operations needed to create a column of 1s. If not possible, return 0.
2 years ago1 answer
Given a DAG of dependencies, how do you order execution correctly?
4 months ago
If you could solve any problem, what would you choose to solve and why?
8 months ago3 answers
What does your day-to-day look like at your current company?
4 years ago3 answers
Walk me through your favorite and least favorite projects from past work.
5 months ago
How would you describe what our company does to your grandmother?
2 years ago1 answer
Why did you choose to attend [College]?
4 years ago3 answers
Why software engineering?
a year ago
What's the most fun thing you did recently?
2 years ago
Tell me about a time you predicted something.
2 years ago
What would you change about your time at [Current Company]?
4 years ago
How do you think your supervisor will rate you from a scale of 1-10?
2 years ago

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Palantir Interview Questions

Design a system to help a delivery driver decide which food orders to pick up, then extend it to how the platform assigns orders at scale.

Design a pipeline that ingests terabytes of sensor data in mixed formats like JSON, CSV, and XML, then surfaces failure predictions to a non-technical end-user.

Design an application to catalog and log species while exploring an unfamiliar environment.

Why FDSE?

What are the things you are weakest in that might make you not succeed here?

Walk me through the specific metrics and trade-offs from a project you owned.

Given a binary array where an operation cycles a row's elements to the left or right, return the minimum number of operations needed to create a column of 1s. If not possible, return 0.

Given a DAG of dependencies, how do you order execution correctly?

If you could solve any problem, what would you choose to solve and why?

What does your day-to-day look like at your current company?

Walk me through your favorite and least favorite projects from past work.

How would you describe what our company does to your grandmother?

Why did you choose to attend [College]?

Why software engineering?

What's the most fun thing you did recently?

Tell me about a time you predicted something.

What would you change about your time at [Current Company]?

How do you think your supervisor will rate you from a scale of 1-10?

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