I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Palantir Technologies (Palo Alto, CA) in Sept 2010
Interview
I met the company at the MIT career fair -- the reps were all very cool and intelligent and had an excellent recruiting booth. I applied online and got a response within a week to set up a phone screen. The phone screener was not the least interested and throughout seemed all together bored. Their interview process is traditionally 2 phone screens and then they fly you out to Palo Alto for more interviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Given a list of ints, write an algorithm to return all the pairs of values that sum to 0
Recruiter screening call, gauging interest. They were mainly interested in learning more about me, and how my expericnes may align with the role and company. Got the interview before any online assessment was shared, directly after a cold application.
After filling out essays on their application, I was sent an email outlining potential topics for the technical interview, as well as advice on preparing. The Interview was conducted with someone from the platform Karat. Was very smooth and the interviewer was very skilled, and they even offer a redo if you are not confident
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I do not remember, it was a leetcode medium problem though
Process was long and drawn out, with multiple different rounds of interviews. After the onsite, I had another interview with a hiring manager where he asked me even more technical questions.