Palantir
Big data analytics company for defense, intelligence, and enterprise.
5 Rounds
~28 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
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Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Given a list of services and their dependencies, write a function to determine a valid deployment order. If there is a circular dependency, throw an error.
#Graphs
#Topological Sort
#DFS
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function that takes a list of IPv4 CIDR blocks and merges any overlapping blocks into the smallest possible list of CIDRs.
#Networking
#Intervals
#Bit Manipulation
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a function to validate if a given JSON object matches a specific schema definition (e.g., checking required fields, data types, and nested structures).
#JSON
#Recursion
#Validation
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