I received an internship offer at both companies (SWE intern at Palantir, not delta; New York office for FB) and am not sure which one I should go with. Both offers are for their New York offices, and I prefer New York over the Bay area. My top priorities (in order) are 1. green card sponsorship (I’m an international student from ROW), 2. interesting work, and 3. career growth/learning opportunities. I think I’m interested in data infra (preferably either ML- or CRM-related), data engineering, and distributed systems, but I’m only a junior in college, so I’m not too sure about which fields I’d really like. Have taken extensive coursework in NLP and deep learning so far, thinking that’s what I wanted to do, but not sure now. Can anyone provide some advice and/or share opinions?
I'm basically in the same situation -- also received offers from both. Regarding Green Card sponsorship I feel like Palantir is the better choice, as Facebook recently had some legal issues related to the PERM issuance. I think both places offer excellent opportunities for learning and growth. I think FB might have more opportunities though, as I've heard it's super easy to switch team if you want to see something new.
Apparently Meta's now done with its lawsuit with the gov't and is now back to its day 1 gc policy.
I've had great experience with Palantir getting a green card for me, but Meta can probably do the same. In terms of growth I do think Pal will be much better because of less berraucracy and hierarchy. FB as a job will always be there, and you could probably get in at a higher level after a year or two at Pal
You’ll grow faster at Palantir but better ML specific opps at Meta. Also Meta will always be there, it’s easier to get in with Palantir at this stage and grow as we scale. Just my two cents. Also there is a weird myth we won’t do green card sponsorship but it’s actually standard policy so offers are equal on that front. Lot of FB interns will end up on busy work projects so roll of the dice there - some amazing projects but also a lot of nothing work
+1 also for interns this year, as far as I saw, everyone worked on really cool shit. Some people did NLP work for their projects, not a garuntee you'll get something like that but it's on the books.