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
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a highly available, multi-region Kubernetes architecture for Palantir's Apollo platform that can survive a complete AWS region failure.
#Kubernetes
#AWS
#High Availability
#Disaster Recovery
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a centralized logging and telemetry system for a globally distributed platform operating across multiple cloud providers and on-prem data centers.
#Logging
#Observability
#Distributed Systems
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design a system to securely and reliably transfer 50TB of sensitive data from an on-premise government facility to an AWS GovCloud environment.
#Data Transfer
#AWS
#Security
#Networking
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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medium
Design an automated CI/CD pipeline for deploying infrastructure changes to a highly secure, restricted environment.
#CI/CD
#Security
#Infrastructure as Code
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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hard
Design an auto-scaling architecture for a Palantir Foundry data ingestion service that experiences sudden, unpredictable 100x traffic spikes.
#Auto-scaling
#AWS
#Queuing
#System Design
DevOps Engineer
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System Design
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medium
How would you architect a disaster recovery plan for a mission-critical PostgreSQL database cluster?
#Databases
#Disaster Recovery
#High Availability
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