Palantir
Big data analytics company for defense, intelligence, and enterprise.
5 Rounds
~28 Days
Very Hard
The Interview Loop
Recruiter Screen (30 min)
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Interview Question Bank
Data Engineer
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Technical
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hard
You are deployed as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDSE) to a client site. Their data is completely undocumented, siloed in legacy databases, and highly messy. What is your step-by-step approach to building a reliable data ontology?
#Data Discovery
#Ontology
#Client Facing
#Data Governance
Data Engineer
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Technical
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medium
How do you design a schema for a highly connected dataset, such as telecom call records, to optimize for graph-like queries (e.g., finding the shortest path of communication between two people)?
#Graph Databases
#Data Modeling
#Query Optimization
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