Palantir Technologies Internship

On November 25, 2020, I signed my offer with Palantir Technologies to become a Forward Deployed Software Engineering intern for Summer 2021. I applied to Palantir Technologies through the Palantir Path Program, which gives students with less experience and technical projects on their resume an opportunity to interview for positions they would typically be disqualified for by an automated resume evaluation system. In this program, they aggregate your score on a coding challenge and personal statement to determine if you will be asked to start in the interview process. About a month after I submitted my application materials and completed my online coding challenge, I got an email from a recruiter letting me know that they wanted to invite me for the first round of interviews. The first interview was a phone interview with the recruiter to learn a little bit more about my background, why I had applied to Palantir and why I am passionate about engineering. Shortly after this interview, I was invited for another round of interviews over Zoom. This round was three, hour long interviews back to back, encompassing coding questions, technical questions and behavioral questions. This was the first set of real interviews I had done, and I was incredibly nervous. My first interview of the day was a learning interview, where I solved coding problems using their proprietary programming languages. The second interview was a regular coding interview and had a longer portion of behavioral questions. The final interview was software decomposition, which involved talking through how you'd design an application start to finish. I came away from the interviews really excited about Palantir and hopeful that I would make it to the final rounds of interviews. About two weeks later, I was contacted by my recruiter to schedule a final interview with the hiring manager of the U.S. Government space within Palantir. This interview was a mix of coding and behavioral questions, and within a week my recruiter called to let me know I'd be sent to the final screening board and it was likely I'd be receiving my offer in a few days.