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Palantir Technologies

Is this your company?

Could be fantastic, or could be a toxic dumpster fire. - Deployment Strategist Palantir Technologies Employee Review

1.0
14 Dec 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

High probability of bright colleagues. Interesting 'behind the industry curtains' perspectives. If you can figure it out, it can be very feasible to move around the company and "chart your own path." Many people also do have positive overall experiences, even if working a lot. Most people are like "oooo palantir" when you tell them you work there.

Cons

Working here is a very high variance experience. Palantir confuses "no structure" for "flat structure". It would seem that this attribute that they present as distinguishing feature is actually just a way to elude organizational accountability. There is an appreciable chance that you end up with a bad manager, that doesn't know how to manage or is just checked out, and you'll be super confused all the time. "Mean Girls" type atmosphere, as others have said, meaning people will be saying one thing to your face and another to your manager or they'll say that someone gave such and such feedback even if they didn't. All too easy to get stabbed in the back by dishonest leads/colleagues. You can easily end up stranded with literally no organizational safety net, and it can feel like the Hunger Games. Sudden surprise dismissals on false pretensions, without any explanation. They've been doing quiet firings for months now to try to claw back their stock grants that have appreciated so much, so they can be GAAP profitable for SP500 inclusion, which they ended up not getting. Don't even get me started with the AIP bs.

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5.0
21 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Hyper intelligent people, interesting problem sets, amazing technology, three meals a day, flexibility

Cons

Pay is below market, workload is exceptionally high

2.0
8 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Most talented, smart and industrious group of people I've ever worked with. Unfortunately, smart people can be easily deceived.

Cons

If you are in Business Development (BD) - i.e. Delta or Echo - this job will be your life. They deliberately underhire - they claim it's to maintain the culture, but really it's to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of you. You are thrown into chaotic situations with no way out but to "chew glass and excrete product". Don't let the flat heirarchy and encouragement of confrontation / open debate deceive you. Karp has majority founder shares and calls the shots. The company is a dictatorship, not a democracy. Resourcing is a black box. If you are a U.S person without a clearance, you will be bait-and-switched into defense even if you thought you could avoid it. With clearance, you'll end up on something much worse. Trust your gut - the company's leadership are not wise, nuanced philosophers - they are spineless, shifty edgelords with no ethical red lines. As a FDE, you will spend half your time working around stupid limitations in the platform you could not foresee when making grand promises to the customer. Foundry is not a cutting edge product, just like Microsoft Suite is not a cutting edge product. Its just too broad for any other company to easily copy it. Palantir just brought middle-of-the-road Silicon valley tech to old-school government, slapped some AI integration onto it and shrouded it in a veil of mystery to make it seem cool and mysterious and appeal to retail investors.

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