Forward Deployed Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Palantir Technologies with 3.4 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 59% positive. To compare, the company-average is 45.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Forward Deployed Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 142 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Palantir Technologies overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Palantir Technologies as a Forward Deployed Engineer according to 142 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 39%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 19%
Personality test: 5%
Presentation: 4%
Group panel interview: 3%
Background check: 2%
IQ intelligence test: 1%
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I applied online. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (New York, NY) in Mar 2026
Interview
30 minute recruiter screen. Recruiter firstly asked how we came to meet, whether by referral, job board or other. Recruiter somewhat shared local background. Explained interview process. Somewhat candid process.
Asked overview questions about business I worked at. Business goals, plans, and implementations theoretical and actual. Asked what I know about Palantir and the role. Talked about how smart, helpful and collaborative everyone there was. Explained FDE’s basically vibe code at this point, and when I asked how they would evaluate prospective candidates atp in consideration to that fact, replied they should have a strong systems understanding and competence for understanding inner workings of what they build.
Interview started late and recruiter was fixing hair and messaging next candidate in final 5-10 minutes. Recruiter mentioned interview transcript goes to hiring manager for decision making with 7 day timeline, aiming for 1-3 days.
Ghosted.
Application
I interviewed at Palantir Technologies
Interview
Three rounds of a recruiter screen, a technical demo with python debugging and some data analysis. Also, did some data base stuff with charting out how to build a backend data system.
I received a phone screen, then did 3 hackerrank problems; the first two were easy, the third was a dynamic programming knapsack problem. The 3 problems were connected and built on each other (imagine something like: design a system that prints messages for a vending machine. the first problem would be something like: given a list of drinks, prices, and a user's order and balance, print a message with change #, or a not enough balance. the second question would be Now imagine you could use either balance or rewards points. the third question would be like optimize for the cheapest drink price given some reward scheme.)
i passed the hackerrank, not finished with the interview process yet. it was easier than intuit and more difficult than, say, the us govt tech force interview process.
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Question 1
phone screen: discussed projects, previous experience, the conversation was thoughtful and the interviewer asked my opinions of the workplace instead of trying to just get detail on what i did, which i enjoyed.