J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris 2 mois. J'ai passé un entretien chez Palantir Technologies (Londres, Angleterre) en févr. 2015
Entretien
Originally entered the recruitment process through a friend's referral. Had a phone interviews/discussion with HR about my initial interest and a exercise (explain database on layman's terms).
After some time I contacted the HR to ask how the process is going on. After this discussion HR booked a phone interview with a Deployment Strategist.
The phone interview included some of the questions mentioned below. After this got a contact from HR to book next set of interviews in London office.
In London went through three interviews (about 45 min each) with Deployment Strategist. Two out of three were 1-on-1, and on the last one there was an additional guy observing (didn't participate at the interview, some training). I was asked the questions below - some of them multiple times (also lot of whiteboard usage). After these spoke to HR about next possible steps.
After two days got a call from HR in which I was informed that they wouldn't progress with me any further. The call was friendly and supportive, even though I didn't receive any tips on my short-comings in interviews (company policy, not to give anything out).
The next steps would've been (or this is what I was told) interview with a manager-level person (in phone, London or New York). And then a meeting with founders.
Even though I sadly missed my opportunity, the overall experience was great! HR took good care of me during the whole process and made me feel comfortable all the time. The interviewers were kind and open, and interviews felt kind of intensive but friendly conversations in fairly relaxed environment. I had good time to ask questions about the nature of the work: hours, projects and traveling.
My tips: Do your homework on the firm (e.g look the 101-videos in YouTube, try analyzethe.us), gather up a bunch of questions (I had them as notes with me), think technological/technical examples in advance (for teaching) and maybe have few basic elevator pitches (pitch a product & yourself).
Good luck!
Questions d'entretien [5]
Question 1
Teach me something technical/technological. (This was asked multiple times.)
Case exercise: Assuming you have access to all data, construct a model which explains the number of long-distance romantic relationship break-ups in relation to oil price changes.
And continuation question: who would be intrested to buy this kind of information and why?
Explain how google (search) works? And what's the difference between typing the address to browser's address bar right away or going through a search engine.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Palantir Technologies
Entretien
Started with a quick review of my recent experiences and behavioral questions, and then jumped into a SQL interview. It was mostly a large code file which had a lot of bugs in it that had to be fixed.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
They asked my about a recent project I worked on at my recent experience and then asked follow up questions about implementation decisions for the project.
J'ai passé un entretien chez Palantir Technologies (New York, NY)
Entretien
There were 3 stages:
1. Chat with a currently deployment strategist (20 min)
2. Onsite interview: consisted of a 45 minute technical comprehension portion and a 45 minute decomposition portion
3. Interview with hiring manager (30-60 min)
After passing a round, they were very quick to get back to me, usually same day or end of the next business day.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
What is work you have done that you are very proud of?
J'ai passé un entretien chez Palantir Technologies
Entretien
Initial screening call with a current Palantir employee -> onsite interview -> hiring manager interview.
Overall very friendly and great. But it was a bit chaotic and unstructured though. The onsite interview had 30 people in one room for almost 4 hours. And the interview portion was only an hour of it. If you’re out of college this is exciting and great experience, but as something with work experience, it was frustrating taking PTO to go in office to have it be a college onboarding day