The Coding Interview
Note: this part is part two of our series on doing your best in interviews. Part one: “How to Ace an Algorithms Interview”Here at Palantir algorithms are important, but code is our lifeblood. We live...
View ArticleHow to Ace a Systems Design Interview
Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons LicenseNote: this third installment in our series on doing your best in interviews. Previously: How to Ace an Algorithms Interview and The Coding...
View ArticleThe UI Design Interview
Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons LicenseOur frontend engineering candidates go through many of the same types of interviews as our backend candidates, i.e., algo and coding. But because...
View ArticleProduct Support at Palantir: Let Me Help You With That
(Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons License)When a user has to contact Product Support for help, he or she already has a problem. Dealing with Support should never add aggravation on top of...
View ArticleHow to Ace a Developer Phone Interview
We wrote a popular series of posts last year on how toace Palantiron-siteinterviews. However, this advice does you no good if you don’t make it past the first hurdle: the phone interview. In this post,...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Palantir Council on Privacy and Civil Liberties
Last month, at Palantir’s GovCon8 event, our CEO, Dr. Alex Karp, announced the creation of the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP). This Council of experts has been...
View ArticlePrivacy, Civil Liberties, and Video Analytics: Part 1
During the past year and a half, Palantir has been developing Palantir Video, a video analytics application that will allow Palantir Gotham users to better integrate video information into the rest of...
View ArticlePalantir at StrataRX 2012: Doing Big Data By Yourself
Lauren Chaparro and I were honored to be among the speakers at Strata RX 2012, O’Reilly’s conference on the use of big data in health care/medical field. Our talk was called “Doing Big Data All By...
View ArticleHow to Ace a Software Decomp Interview
Coding. Algorithms. System Design. These interviews, to assess core skills necessary for a successful career at Palantir, remain at the heart of our hiring process. But as our company and products have...
View ArticleAn Update on the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties
In October 2012, Palantir announced the formation of our Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP). In January 2014, we announced the expansion of the PCAP to include a group...
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