Sounds like an escalation-of-commitment filter. It's like: Hey they made it through the interview gauntlet. Now we can really haze them! The sort of person w

Sounds like an escalation-of-commitment filter. It's like: Hey they made it through the interview gauntlet. Now we can really haze them! The sort of person who wants to work at Palantir deserves this anyway, so score one for karma.