This was the worst interview experience I have ever witnessed, and my wife and I are still trying to figure out if this was some corporate joke by Palantir, or if this is how the company actually runs. 1. The date was decided for an interstate in-person interview and I was given a number to contact with questions and for a basic introduction. Person never responded. 3. A few days before the flight, the date was pushed back and I was given a different number to contact. This number did not respond either. 4. My interview was scheduled for 9:30am and when I woke up that morning, I saw that Palantir emailed at 5:30am telling me that my interview was pushed back 2 hours to 11:30am, and that I needed to respond ASAP! I responded and heard nothing back. 5. I arrived 15 minutes early (11:15am), and as I waited, I saw that my name was written on the glass window of the office with the time "11:45am" next to it. I assume Palantir only interviews adults, so telling people that their interview is 15 minutes before their actual interview time seemed childish and disrespectful. As I waited I noticed that their was almost no one in the office, but their was also a really cool rock-climbing wall. Still I waited. At about 11:30 most people showed up and they had some buffet meal sort of thing in a different room. No food for me though. Still I waited. 6. Still I waited. At 12:15 I was finally called into a conference room. No real food had been provided other than chips and drinks so I was feeling a bit hungry by now. I sat for 20 minutes as they tryied to set up video chat. It turns out the person in the US was watching us on video the whole time and never contacted us in another way. Eventually we did the interview over the phone. 8. Next up was a duplicate of the above debacle. But somehow, the video finally showed the person on the other side! Again trivial stuff. 9. I was supposed to do some writing while video chatting witha writer. Right before the video chat started I was given 2 pieces of paper. The interview started and I was asked some questions to make sure I didn't have prior knowledge of what I was going to write about. But when I looked at the paper's I noticed they gave a comprehensive description of the thing I was not supposed to know about. 10. Right before I was supposed to start writing on a company laptop I was told I would have 30-40 minutes and that I would be stopped at 9:30pm US time. I then looked at the laptop time and saw a different time, the wall-clock has another time, too. 11. After about 40-45 minutes, no one came in to stop me so I figure I had the time wrong. I waited another 15 minutes and no one came in, so I left the conference room and wandered around until someone finally acknowledged me and got my next interviewer. 12. It was now about 2 and I was STARVING, but still no decent option for food other than a CLIFF bar. Finally an in-person interview. They asked how I felt working for a tech company since I'm not an engineer. I am a highly qualified engineer and this was the 4th time someone said that to me. So I politely pointed to my CV sitting in front of him and said, "ohh, actually I am an engineer." And he looked surprised! When I said that the salary cap was something I thought was really great and progressive at Palantir, the guy was shocked and told me he thought it was horrible. Awkward. 13. The next interview came and I was nearly delirious with hunger. The guy was essentially a rude and arrogant person and when I asked about the awesome rock wall he said no one uses it. Finally the interview ended and they asked if I could make my flight. I looked at the clock, had an hour and 20 minutes and said "yep." However, they hadn't updated their clocks, so I had 20 minuted for my flight. I made it thankfully. 14. I got home, told my wife about it and she said they seemed like the most incompetent people she had ever heard of. She was familiar with the whole interview process up to this point and each step of the way grew more and more hesitant about the job (as did I). We decided to abandon the idea of me working there. 15. I still had to wait 3 months for my reimbursement to be processed. Only 1 out of the 4 people I followed up with about the reimbursement responded, and there was some excuse about changing reimbursement agents. During the 3 months of interviews no one could actually tell me where the job location was. It was advertised as one city, then they said it might be in another city. Then in the in person interviews, they still didn't know. I was talking to my potential future boss, and he couldn't tell me what city the job was in! But he did mention that if it wasn't in the country capital I would have to fly there 3-5 times a week.