Google vs Palantir NYC

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happilygon

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happilygon
Nov 5, 2020 24 Comments

OKAY ONE MORE CUZ I JUST RECENTLY GOT ANOTHER MATCH AND OFFER

Choosing between 2 New Grad Offers, as Google’s comp package from my return offer from spring internship was renegotiated after my Palantir offer came out.

Palantir: Forward Deployed Engineer, NYC
TC: 235K
Base: 135K
Sign-On: 30K
RSUs: 55K (220 vested over 4 years)
Annual “Distribution” Bonus: 15K minimum

I’m honestly super in love with Palantir’s mission, culture, and work. (bar the ICE contract, which, after speaking with multiple employees, I realize is a very common sentiment) Is the rep in Tech still high? Or has it been too tainted by the scandals in the news?

Google: L3 New Grad SWE, New York
TC: 206K
Base: 126K
Sign-On: 35K
RSUs: 30K (120K vested over 4 years)
Performance Bonus: 15K minimum

Fun internship, and the Google name brand is really nice. Got a bump in Sign on and RSUs after negotiating with Palantir Offer.

Looking for a high impact, and high growth opportunity to ultimately pivot to a more client-facing/product driven role such as PM, Entrepreneurship, or even VC. Any input will be appreciated. Thanks!

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  • Forget about the evil corp branding, Palantir's technical reputation has always been pretty poor, especially for FDEs. A bunch of people from my university started there as new grads, most were in the bottom half of the class.
    Nov 5, 2020 5
    • I have never heard Palantir and ‘poor technical reputation’ in the same sentence. There’s plenty to be critical of, but the technical bar here is dumb high and that’s reflected in the quality of people you work with. OP feel free to DM me, I was in a very similar situation upon joining.
      Nov 5, 2020
    • Procore
      hdhcucj77

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      hdhcucj77
      Palantir has had a reputation for having a high technical bar since its inception.
      Nov 5, 2020
  • Amazon / Eng
    🚀🤣AMZN

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    🚀🤣AMZN
    Based on your last paragraph, Palantir for sure
    Nov 5, 2020 0
  • Google
    mlVa71

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    mlVa71
    My understanding of forward deployed engineer is that they just do stuff on customer’s site. Kinda like a engineer consultant. Btw, almost every fde wants to be a swe and that’s why they are always hiring fde/convincing candidates to be fde. Also, I was explicitly told that they have poor comments/docs when I interviewed at palantir nyc. Honestly, I was looking for the same thing as you mentioned in the last paragraph. In the end, I got fed with all their bs and took my return offer at Google. I have a bunch other choices at the time but I am pretty happy with where I am right now. PM if you want to talk more.
    Nov 5, 2020 6
    • This is very dependent on the deployment but tech stack is primarily Java and Go for infra and python is heavily used for writing data pipelines(on spark). Please reach out to couple of FDEs for your second question. But to underscore the point I made earlier, you are very much in control of what kind of work you want to do(heavy technical or business development).
      Nov 7, 2020
    • Amazon
      bchelalhd

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      bchelalhd
      @palantir can you please provide more details on what the fde interview is like?
      Nov 23, 2020
  • Procore
    hdhcucj77

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    hdhcucj77
    Google pays less which makes Palantir the obvious choice. Why is this a hard decision?
    Nov 5, 2020 5
  • Microsoft / Mgmt
    pompe?o

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    pompe?o
    This is not how you compute TC. Generally you spread sign on over 2/4 years or just don’t include it. But either way, great offer congrats
    Nov 6, 2020 2
    • Amazon
      happilygon

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      happilygon
      OP
      Sign on was given as a one time payment in the beginning tho?
      Nov 7, 2020
    • Microsoft / Mgmt
      pompe?o

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      pompe?o
      TC is the average you make. Sign on is just boosting your Y1 comp.

      Consider this:
      100k / 100k for 4y / 150k sign on
      200k/ 300k for 4y / no sign on
      These would all give 275k TC in your model but obviously first is worse. Since your annual TC is only 125k after Y1
      Nov 7, 2020