67Decompose: here are 8,000 taxi trips. Propose a product, sketch the components and APIs, buildable in a week.▼hardNewPalantir2 replies◆ premiumA dataset lands in your lap with a one-week deadline attached. Most candidates start exploring the data. The ones who pass start by working out which questions this data physically cannot answer.Open full answer →
70Pick a product feature. What are the P0s, what's the data model, how do you know it works, and what do you show executives?▼hardNewPalantir2 replies◆ premiumThe only round where you choose the problem, which sounds like a gift and is where most candidates lose it. Four things get graded in one flow, and the fourth is the one engineers skip.Open full answer →
74Tell me about a pattern you spotted across customers that changed how your team worked.▼mediumNewPalantirDatabricksOpenAI2 replies◆ premiumThe question that separates a forward deployed engineer from a very good consultant. One delivers each engagement. The other notices that the third engagement looked like the first two and does something about it.Open full answer →
