It used to be the hottest Silicon Valley company out there... Issues with scaling the platform? Competition from Microsoft, Amazon, Google and startups? Less swags at career fairs?
Palantir has always been just a consulting company. Now more people understand that and the hype is over.
A highly paid consulting company
It was never that hot Work with Trump and ice and die
One can only dangle a ipo carrot so long before the horse gets tired and leaves
Disagree with the above - they do impactful work (not necessarily sexy for most SWEs, though) However, they are playing in a market that is rapidly becoming more competitive (from F500 companies becoming more digital savvy and pushing for custom solutions, to the rise of open source ETL solutions, and to pushes from big cloud players). As you said, I think they’re trying to iron-out how to scale with Foundry in a way that doesn’t require massive consulting overheads. It’s a tough nut to crack but I wish them all the best.
Lol you work at a company with massive consulting overhead and it can still make money. I guess the key things they do are (i) they overwork eager mbas, (ii) they make shady deals with executives. None of them are tech friendly, so you would struggle in tech consulting business. I don’t think the trajectory of Mckinsey would be that different soon
Geez, you guys get quite confrontational over blind, eh? (i) Even their non-technical MBA guys are pretty technical (for good, and for bad). That means they tend to deliver good outputs, albeit with some product pushing (ii) Not really - I mean, any private deal is by definition shady in some way to someone. If you have to sell to enterprise, then you’re going to have to make those deals. How about you look into all the massive cloud contracts that Google is so eager to sell? I’m sure you’ll find a lot of shit there (I’m certain, tbh) Consulting will exist as long as people want to be freelance, and as long as office politics exist. At the level these consulting firms play at, its not about technical prowess, its about relationships. That might not mean much, but it virtually guarantees that someone will be willing to pay for an external party they trust to help them tell their boss that they’re right 😉 I don’t see that changing for a while.
Palantir mostly hires fresh faced college grads. That strategy was very much impacted over the last few years as the public came to understand what fulfilling govt contracts in the US can look like. I heard in Dec from an older Palantir worker they were finally looking at specifically going after 'industry' workers ( ie, not new college hires) since there college pipeline has... been drying up. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-12-07/students-protest-tech-companies-ice-contracts So for all of you that worship $$ and have zero ethics/morals- keep telling yourselves it's just those pesky SJWs. Definitely don't actively read books and stay current on the issues to educate yourselves and make up your own educated decisions. That would detract from your TC! If you have a good pointer to counter any info, I'm always up to learn. But just tagging something SJW is ... laziness on your part.
You referenced "zero ethics/morals". So what are examples that illustrate that it is the case with this company? Is it solely for working with ICE or something more specific?
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/28/20837365/anita-b-grace-hopper-palantir-sponsor-worlds-biggest-womens-tech-conference-dropped
So there aren’t enough SJWs at Palantir, it is the issue?
It’s a bunch of white male Stanford grads