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Palantir Behavioral Interview Exam with verified detailed || || || || || || ||
solutions
Why Palantir? - ✔✔-mission of common good (reference Brainpower and Beamlab and
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Bowdoin)
-applying Data and AI to non-technical fields (finding otherwise-hidden trends and relate to
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independent projects)
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Example: Palantir can connect hospital data, credit card data, shipping data, and more into
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one platform to determine where and why outbreaks of diseases begin
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-Flat hierarchy for developers (can bring ideas to the table and be involved in the entire
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development process as an intern) || || || ||
-Top-of-the-line software, best SWEs to learn from || || || || || ||
-F1 Ferrari relationship (involved in lots of unique industries)
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What is something challenging that you have worked on (technical or non technical) and
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what was the impact or outcome of it? What did you learn from this experience? - ✔✔-
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Hackathon project ||
-Overwhelming scope of data || || ||
-Messy data ||
-We used economic theory and I made predictive models
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-Cabo Verde and Nicaragua || || ||
Dev vs. Delta? - ✔✔-Prefer Dev because I want to work with a team of engineers to build a
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project and see the result of my work when the code is shipped
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-Delta job sounds very interesting and fast-paced, but I don't think the Client Support side
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aligns as closely with my skills, experience, and interests
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What are you looking for in an internship? - ✔✔-Learning experience: tech company, learn
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what I like and don't like in a job
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-Small teams, lots of responsibility, interacting with other engineers
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-Interesting work: learning technical skills and using them for cool applications || || || || || || || || || ||
Why did you choose Bowdoin? - ✔✔-Small school (community, leadership, small class sizes
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and relationships with professors)
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-Campus (not city → leads to better community) || || || || || || ||
-Academics (obviously) ||
-Focus on common good || || ||
-Friendly campus (lots of nice people) || || || || ||
Tell me about a time you had multiple competing priorities. How did you handle this? -
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✔✔-In Spain: I wanted to improve my Spanish but I also wanted to make friends and build
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meaningful relationships, which wasn't really possible with my level of Spanish || || || || || || || || || ||
-Handled it by speaking only Spanish to my friends from home who I already knew, and
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only speaking in English with others when necessary for a complex conversation or
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planning information ||
Please describe one conflict scenario that you have dealt with - ✔✔-Working with
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
procrastinating/inexperienced team for Distributed Systems projects (had to do most of the || || || || || || || || || || || ||
work myself, even though the project was meant for three people)
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-I took charge and assigned tasks, but I didn't feel comfortable acting as the boss
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Tell me about a community that you care about? And if you had a chance to contribute,
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how would you do it? - ✔✔-Computer Science education in middle and high school is very
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
important to me, as I believe that starting young and getting kids (especially from
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
underrepresented groups) involved is a great way to help people develop their skills and || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
interests in tech || ||
Palantir Behavioral Interview Exam with verified detailed || || || || || || ||
solutions
Why Palantir? - ✔✔-mission of common good (reference Brainpower and Beamlab and
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
Bowdoin)
-applying Data and AI to non-technical fields (finding otherwise-hidden trends and relate to
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
independent projects)
|| ||
Example: Palantir can connect hospital data, credit card data, shipping data, and more into
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
one platform to determine where and why outbreaks of diseases begin
|| || || || || || || || || ||
-Flat hierarchy for developers (can bring ideas to the table and be involved in the entire
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
development process as an intern) || || || ||
-Top-of-the-line software, best SWEs to learn from || || || || || ||
-F1 Ferrari relationship (involved in lots of unique industries)
|| || || || || || || ||
What is something challenging that you have worked on (technical or non technical) and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
what was the impact or outcome of it? What did you learn from this experience? - ✔✔-
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Hackathon project ||
-Overwhelming scope of data || || ||
-Messy data ||
-We used economic theory and I made predictive models
|| || || || || || || ||
-Cabo Verde and Nicaragua || || ||
Dev vs. Delta? - ✔✔-Prefer Dev because I want to work with a team of engineers to build a
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
project and see the result of my work when the code is shipped
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
-Delta job sounds very interesting and fast-paced, but I don't think the Client Support side
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
aligns as closely with my skills, experience, and interests
|| || || || || || || ||
, 2
What are you looking for in an internship? - ✔✔-Learning experience: tech company, learn
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
what I like and don't like in a job
|| || || || || || || ||
-Small teams, lots of responsibility, interacting with other engineers
|| || || || || || || ||
-Interesting work: learning technical skills and using them for cool applications || || || || || || || || || ||
Why did you choose Bowdoin? - ✔✔-Small school (community, leadership, small class sizes
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
and relationships with professors)
|| || || ||
-Campus (not city → leads to better community) || || || || || || ||
-Academics (obviously) ||
-Focus on common good || || ||
-Friendly campus (lots of nice people) || || || || ||
Tell me about a time you had multiple competing priorities. How did you handle this? -
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
✔✔-In Spain: I wanted to improve my Spanish but I also wanted to make friends and build
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
meaningful relationships, which wasn't really possible with my level of Spanish || || || || || || || || || ||
-Handled it by speaking only Spanish to my friends from home who I already knew, and
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
only speaking in English with others when necessary for a complex conversation or
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
planning information ||
Please describe one conflict scenario that you have dealt with - ✔✔-Working with
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
procrastinating/inexperienced team for Distributed Systems projects (had to do most of the || || || || || || || || || || || ||
work myself, even though the project was meant for three people)
|| || || || || || || || || ||
-I took charge and assigned tasks, but I didn't feel comfortable acting as the boss
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Tell me about a community that you care about? And if you had a chance to contribute,
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
how would you do it? - ✔✔-Computer Science education in middle and high school is very
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
important to me, as I believe that starting young and getting kids (especially from
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
underrepresented groups) involved is a great way to help people develop their skills and || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
interests in tech || ||
