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Decompose: design a system to coordinate disaster response for a city.

The most open-ended prompt in the Palantir canon, no scale given, no user given, no disaster given. What separates passing answers is one design assumption about the data that almost nobody states out loud.

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The most open-ended prompt in the Palantir canon, no scale given, no user given, no disaster given. What separates passing answers is one design assumption about the data that almost nobody states out loud.

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