I was approached by a recruiter via LinkedIn. She was VERY friendly, attentive, informal yet professional. I got a far better impression of her than my interviewer in the end. A few email exchanges/phone calls with CVs, a few motivations as well as a written response to "Why Palantir?", "What kind of data have you worked with (3Vs questions)" and a situational question and hiring software engineers and structuring recruitment teams (yeah... was pretty random). I then had a phone interview which was paaaainful. The interviewer led it really badly, lots of strange timing resulting in peculiar silences which I then tried to fill a little (this is quite important for a phone interview). I was a little jokey and friendly at the start to break the ice/warm up (it was at 7pm - so thought he might want a little friendliness before we started), and it was just deadpan and absolutely no bounce off.