- They don't care that they are unpopular, arrogant, elitist, any of that. So like all endeavors of thin-skinned persuasion, you must address them where it hurts. The competency of their execution. And their core product, Foundry (which, in simple layman's terms, is data analytics software), is a jack of all trades, master of none software that tends to fail to live up to its branding.
It's a darn shame so many salespeople's careers have died hawking this thing, because AK is the biggest huckster of them all. The company needs them at this point (or will, once enough people realize that they'll never make their money back on this historically high P/E ratio).
Remember, this company has been around longer than FB, so the real innovators here moved to OpenAI, and the real war dogs moved on to Anduril. Because again, the product is pretty terrible. And not just terrible considering that businesses and US taxpayers routinely spend eight to nine figures on the software alone, PLUS another eight to nine figures for the army (yes, army. Surprise! It can take a small army to build and maintain their software as well. Google "Palantir partnerships". I'll wait). No, it's objectively terrible in that its core function is to deliver business/government decision making to executive stakeholders. It is great demoware in the hands of a caffeinated 23-yr old former software engineer who needs to pay high COL rent, but there's a reason why 99% of the population has never tried the software (and they internally killed a lot of initiatives that would have made this happen). It is business application software that is extremely hard to "configure" in a way that consistently provides values, and hats off to the men and women who can pull that off with any level of consistency (you should move on and work at a real tech company).
- I could write a book on all the insufferable people you can meet there, but apparently that's already been done (google "Reflections on Palantir")
- Like I said before, there are career opportunities there, but they are hidden in the speakeasy, and some 26-yr old intellectual psuedo-fac**t will stab you in the hallway before you get there.
- There are now 150 college kids who read this and thought, "Sounds like my place." GOOD. Stay there, drown in the microservices, and rid your toxicity from the rest of the workforce. This was written for the other 10,000+ plus students (because let's be honest, no one over the age of 28 is getting hired at this Lord of the Flies meets Severance hellscape of an environment) who might be thinking, "Is this for me?"
And the answer is, "Maybe." If your other option is to do something completely unrelated to your career path and Palantir offers you an opportunity, take it and make the most. But do it knowing that this is not the "only" way the working world works, or even the best in most cases. And make sure your morals are locked-in before you enter their doors. Your future colleagues morals HAVE changed. Many of their employees are so young that they have changed their moral compass working there. Do not think you are an exception. 10x stock growth will do that do that to you, to say nothing of their other variables.
