This is a 2025 interview experience for Palantir's Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Gov) role, published on Aced (formerly Exponent). The candidate went through three rounds—recruiter screen, technical interview, and final round—covering four questions total. They found the phone screen and first coding round easy, with SQL (which they had never used before) being the hardest part. Other candidate quotes describe a well-organized process with collaborative interviewers, and note the technical round emphasized practical feature implementation over LeetCode-style problems, advising candidates to prioritize a working solution over unfinished optimized code.

Key points

• Three interview rounds with four questions total for the Gov role
• Phone screen and first coding round were easy
• SQL was the candidate's biggest challenge, having never used it
• Technical interview favored practical coding over LeetCode-style problems
• Advice: prioritize a working solution over optimized but unfinished code

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