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
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
Walk me through how you would debug a Kubernetes Pod that is stuck in a CrashLoopBackOff state in a production environment.
#Kubernetes
#Debugging
#Containers
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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hard
Walk me through your strategy for upgrading a production AWS EKS cluster to a new Kubernetes minor version with zero downtime.
#Kubernetes
#AWS EKS
#Zero Downtime
Cloud Engineer
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Technical
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medium
What is the difference between a Kubernetes Pod being OOMKilled and a Pod being Evicted? How do you fix each?
#Kubernetes
#Resource Management
#Debugging
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