have a Palantir onsite coming up in 3 weeks for a product role (not SWE). i've been reading everything i can find but most posts are 1-2 years old and the process seems to shift.
if you've interviewed at Palantir in the last 6-12 months, can you drop: role and rough level number of rounds and format what surprised you any specific prep that helped
not asking for proprietary questions, just structural stuff. really trying to understand if the PM loop is similar to the SWE loop or totally different. thanks
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pm_priya
did a PM loop about 8 months ago. 5 rounds: product sense, execution/metrics, estimation, leadership/behavioral, and a "strategy" round that was basically a mini case. the product sense round was heavy on operational software, not consumer apps. they kept asking how i'd design tools for expert users who hate bad UX. estimation round was more back-of-envelope analysis than pure math. prep: read their blog posts and watch the youtube interviews with karp, it tells you a lot about what they think "good" looks like.
analyst_ana
not a PM but i had a data analyst round there last year. the sql was hard, like multiple CTEs and window functions on a messy schema. they also asked me to design a dashboard for an analyst at a hospital system, which was more product-thinking than i expected for a data role.
intl_isla
one thing i noticed from prep: palantir product roles seem to care a lot about the difference between 'enterprise' and 'government' software constraints. things like compliance, auditability, and user training at scale. worth having opinions on that if you're in a PM loop.