Given Palantir's involvement in so many controversial issues ( and sometimes legally grey areas ), how do Palantir employees feel about the work? Asking specifically about Palantir because I have seen protests from Google, Amazon, Microsoft etc and even some major headlines about projects being dropped because of employee pushback, but haven't come across anything similar for Palantir. Feel free to list/describe your company's situation if you aren't from Palantir and still believe you org is doing similar work.
Oddly enough, I don't think I have ever seen a Palantir employee on Blind.
Yeah helping our country is controversial but google censoring speech for China is A-Ok.
what I want to understand is that, we have seen protests from google/fb/Microsoft/amazon employees on a large scale, but not from Palantir employees (anonymous/public whatever). So not able to understand why there's a disparity even though people with similar backgrounds would probably end up working at both types of companies. Also, now that I think about it - I haven't seen even a sexual harassment protest when everything around was completely engulfed in them. Also, I don't believe that everyone working at Palantir is American, right? Given the skew in availability of skilled tech labour, shouldn't there be non-american employees at the very least coming out at a similar rate compared to other tech companies?
Palantir people are more patriotic: they kind of people who want to work there are not SJW. No SJW would want to work with Thiel anyway after he supported trump. Also - most employees there are required to be american citizens so that makes a lot of difference
Same goes for people from Facebook. How do you sleep at night?
We generally have pretty open (and sometimes contentious) internal discussion about all of these things but don’t see a need to bring that into the public eye.
What is this? professionalism?! Don't you know you're supposed to have a hotline to the Washington post for every little internal company decision.
I love the company name
what did people in Microsoft protest against? Low TC?
afaik,there was a protest against : 1. use of gaming VR tech they developed to make soldiers more deadly 2. MeToo 3. MS Azure's involvement with ICE TC seems pretty high for people who are willing to spend a few years (>3-4) with annual stocks and benefits, please correct me If I am wrong there
I've got no problems with it. I think there is a fair bit blown out of proportion. If you're going to work on things that matter you'll always hit gray areas.
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