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Decompose the customer problem

“Our job is to take a high-level problem, ‘decompose’ or break it down, and design a solution.”

ElisaForward Deployed Software Engineer, New York

Palantir Blog · 2019-04-08

Trace the data to the outcome

Why did the AI query find twice as many customers?

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“We wanted to assess both their business reasoning and technical reasoning”

Shilpa BalajiFormer Palantir FDE and FDE recruitment lead

First Round Review · 2026-02-24

State the business consequence

The sponsor wants a faster AI demo. What should you measure?

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