I just completed my interview through Karat for Palantir. - I completed the first question quickly. - I took a little while and struggled a little to answer the second question (it was a Dynamic Programming question). But I ended up getting it with all the test cases passing. - I started the third question and did not have time to finish, but had verbally given him a solution. Should I redo the Karat interview based on how long I took to answer the second question? #tech #interview
At what stage of the interview do they have you do this? I ask as I interviewed with Palantir and am moving to on-sites, but my initial tech screen was with someone from the company.
Will karat pay any thing if I complete 3 questions, that motivates us
So now we have to complete 3 questions in 45 minutes ? 2 years ago 2 questions was enough. 5 years ago 1 question was enough. Where are we going š
Our future: You walk into the room. The interviewer doesn't deal with the pleasantries; names don't matter. You both know what you're there for. He begins to speak, half a sentence coming out of his mouth, but you interrupt him. "Ah yes, number 4. Median of Two Sorted Arrays. Too simple. Give me another." He speaks again. "68, Text Justification. You can do better." "887, Super Egg Drop. 952, Largest Component Size by Common Factor." This goes on and on. It becomes clear that this employee isn't the rockstar that you are. You know all the numbers. You know all the algorithms. You have seen the universe of Leetcode from question one to n; you have shed blood, sweat, and tears into your keyboard, a small price to pay to become the machine that FAANGMULA+ asked you to become. "Fine, fine. Let's move on to the culture fit portion of the interview." "The what?" You say. This wasn't mentioned on the discussion boards. You begin to sweat. Is it possible there's an algorithm you haven't heard of? Some novel approach, some twisting of a data structure that you haven't already seen? No. It's not possible. It can't be. You are Big-O and Big-Theta. You are the alpha and the omega. You ARE Leetcode. "Do you have any hobbies outside of work? You know, other than programming," he asks. Srs though Leetcode et al is the worst.
I will show my feet to interviewer if asks 3 questions. 1 question is ideal.
*UPDATE* I did not redo my Karat interview and they have decided to move forward with next steps in the interview process š
Any tips for the interview?
What is this karat?
Hey, what sort of questions were the Karat interviews?
Heyy! I have an upcoming interview with palantir by karat! can you please brief me about the questions you were asked?
Iām a karat interviewer and would say you likely did quite well. For the most part, completing two questions is a good performance. That said, the redo is really a personal decision based on how you felt you did and whether you think you would do better if given another chance. The knowledge based questions and code optimality do factor into the scoring as well, but if I were you I would feel pretty good based on what you shared here.
Thanks! I feel I did a pretty good job too. I just hope Palantir isn't looking for absolutely perfect code. :-)
How did you get into Karat interviewing? Does Google let you do that?