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Software platforms that help governments and businesses integrate data and run operations.

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About the company

Founded

2003

Principal executive office

Aventura, Florida, United States

Listed on

Nasdaq: PLTR

Employees (2025)

4,429

Customers (2025)

954

Revenue (FY2025)

$4.475 billion

Government revenue share

54%

Commercial revenue share

46%

Core platforms

Gotham, Foundry, Apollo and AIP

Palantir Technologies Inc. builds software platforms that integrate data, decisions and operations for government and commercial customers. It was founded in 2003 and trades on Nasdaq under PLTR.

Its principal platforms are Gotham, Foundry, Apollo and the Artificial Intelligence Platform. Palantir reported 954 customers and $4.475 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025.

At December 31, 2025, Palantir employed 4,429 people, with 28% outside the United States. Government customers generated 54% of revenue and commercial customers generated 46%.

Key People

Alex Karp

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Stephen Cohen

Co-Founder, President, Secretary and Director

Shyam Sankar

Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President

David Glazer

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Interview process at Palantir

(2,691 Glassdoor interviews in the fetched numeric snapshot)

Interview experience

47% positive

Interview difficulty

3.3 out of 5

Overall experience

EasyDifficult

Prep for your Palantir interview with AI

Practise decomposing ambiguous operational problems and defending technical tradeoffs.

Palantir Interview Questions & Answers

Q: Design a chess game in Python.

A: Clarify the required rules and interface, then model pieces, board state, moves, validation and game termination.

Answer by AI
  • Separate rules from presentation.
  • Use polymorphism only where it helps.
  • Test illegal moves and end states.

Q: Optimize a set of network requests that currently run serially.

A: Map dependencies first, then introduce bounded concurrency, timeouts, retries and observability without violating ordering.

Answer by AI
  • Identify independent requests.
  • Set concurrency limits.
  • Discuss partial failure and idempotency.

Q: Design a vending machine with ordering, balance and rewards.

A: Define the domain objects and state transitions, then explain payment, inventory, reward and failure handling.

Answer by AI
  • Clarify transaction boundaries.
  • Prevent inconsistent inventory.
  • Cover cancellation and refunds.

Q: Manipulate an array representing a stock portfolio.

A: Restate the required transformation and invariants before choosing a linear scan, map or sorting approach.

Answer by AI
  • Clarify input and output.
  • Handle duplicates and empty input.
  • State complexity.

Prep for your Palantir interview with AI

Practise decomposing ambiguous operational problems and defending technical tradeoffs.

Palantir Salaries in the United States (Updated 2026)

Forward Deployed Engineer

Glassdoor total-pay range

$199K to $342K per year

433 Salaries submitted

Software Engineer

Glassdoor total-pay range

$205K to $324K per year

418 Salaries submitted

Deployment Strategist

Glassdoor total-pay range

$152K to $235K per year

316 Salaries submitted

Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Glassdoor total-pay range

$224K to $358K per year

114 Salaries submitted

Product Designer

Glassdoor total-pay range

$150K to $233K per year

41 Salaries submitted

Sales

Glassdoor total-pay range

$167K to $311K per year

39 Salaries submitted

Know your worth at Palantir

Compare role scope, location, level and total pay before deciding.

Build a standout resume with AI

Show how you turn ambiguous data and operational problems into deployed outcomes.

Benefits

Medical, dental and vision insurance
Life, AD&D and disability coverage
Commuter and relocation benefits
Flexible take-what-you-need paid time off
Two weeks of paid year-end office closure
Ten paid holidays
Military, medical and other leave programmes
Paid new-parent leave and subsidized backup care
Fertility, adoption and surrogacy support
New-child stipend
401(k) retirement plan

Latest Product Updates

July 23, 2026

Investigate dataset history with Time Travel

Palantir announced a Time Travel capability for investigating a dataset's prior state and history.

#Foundry #Data

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July 23, 2026

AI FDE supports Workflow Lineage

The AI FDE product update added support for using Workflow Lineage in its workflows.

#AI #Lineage

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July 23, 2026

Widget display optimization in Workshop

A Workshop update introduced optimization for widget display behaviour.

#Workshop #Product

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July 21, 2026

Restricted Views support Global Branching

Palantir added Global Branching support for Restricted Views.

#Branching #Views

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July 21, 2026

Workflow Lineage helps debug permission issues

A Workflow Lineage update added tools for viewing and debugging permission issues.

#Permissions #Lineage

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Palantir FAQ

Palantir builds software platforms that integrate data, decisions and operations for government and commercial customers.