Palantir
Big data analytics company for defense, intelligence, and enterprise.
5 Rounds
~28 Days
Very Hard
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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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easy
Write a script to parse a 50GB web server log file and return the top 10 IP addresses that generated HTTP 5xx errors.
#Python
#Bash
#Log Parsing
#Data Structures
Cloud Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a concurrent tool in Go or Python that takes a list of 10,000 URLs, checks their SSL certificate expiration dates, and alerts if any expire within 30 days.
#Concurrency
#Networking
#Security
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a Python script to parse a 50GB Nginx access log file and output the top 10 IP addresses that received 5xx HTTP status codes.
#Python
#Log Parsing
#Memory Management
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a Bash script to find all files in a directory hierarchy modified in the last 24 hours that contain the string 'ERROR'.
#Bash
#Linux
#Command Line
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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medium
Write a script to automatically identify and rotate AWS IAM Access Keys for all users that are older than 90 days.
#Python
#AWS
#Boto3
#Security
DevOps Engineer
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Coding
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easy
Write a script to parse a JSON file containing AWS resource configurations and output a list of all S3 buckets that do not have encryption enabled.
#Python
#JSON
#AWS
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