Palantir
Big data analytics company for defense, intelligence, and enterprise.
5 Rounds
~28 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
Standard fit check, behavioral questions, and resume overview.
Technical Loop (3-4 Rounds)
Deep dive into domain knowledge, coding, and system design.
Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Explain how you would implement incremental builds for a massive dataset that receives millions of updates, inserts, and deletes daily. How do you handle late-arriving data?
#Incremental Processing
#Change Data Capture
#Data Lakes
Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
How do you handle schema evolution in a long-running data lake environment? What happens if an upstream system changes a column type from INT to STRING?
#Schema Evolution
#Data Governance
#Data Lakes
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