Palantir Forward-Deployed Engineer interview: referral, decomposition, and long decision wait

After applying with a referral, I went through an HR screen and a decomposition round, then an onsite with three separate interviews on coding, learning, and decomposition. A final hiring-manager conversation ended the process.

The format felt deliberate. Even before the onsite, the rounds appeared to build toward the same skill: taking an open-ended situation and making it actionable through both my reasoning and communication. The learning and decomposition portions made it hard to coast because I had to stay engaged and adjust as the interviewer shaped the problem.

It took about five weeks after the hiring-manager round to get a not-selected update. I put real effort into matching the role's decomposition and learning style, so the long wait made the ending feel anticlimactic.

Location: United States. Overall feedback: Positive. Offer status: No offer.