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Palantir Forward-Deployed Engineer interview: referral, decomposition, and long decision wait

PalantirForward-Deployed Engineer · HR Screen · Jul 2026

After applying with a referral, I went through an HR screen and a decomposition round, then an onsite with three separate interviews on coding, learning, and decomposition. A final hiring-manager conversation ended the process. The format felt deliberate. Even before the onsite, the rounds appeared to build toward the same skill: taking an open-ended situation and making it actionable through bot…

Shared by a candidate · reported Jul 2026. Interview formats change; use it as a guide, not a script.