Re:Inside Palantir
by rdtsc on Friday May 06, 2016 @06:23PM
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They also like to recruit from around Washington DC area schools (Univ. of Maryland for example). Saw them at career fairs while also recruiting there. They all wear cool hoodies and project this agile young startup image. It seems to work, there is a decent size line of young hopeful grads wanted to work there.
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Re:Inside Palantir
by linkregister on Friday May 06, 2016 @08:28PM
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It doesn't hurt that Palantir's offices in McLean are reminiscent of the GooglePlex while the top defense contractors' offices look like those in Office Space.
Yap, I agree. They are doing everything right recruiting-wise. I think only Google and Facebook had lines longer than them amongst maybe 50 companies or so.
The office isn't in McLean anymore, it's been moved to Georgetown. Much hipper.
Re:Inside Palantir
by linkregister on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @01:45PM
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That sounds like a nightmare, traffic-wise.
That's interesting. I forgot to also mention that, from what I've heard, if you are going to work for Palantir, their NYC office is where you want to be. That the team(s) there more direct interaction with clients and influence on solutions/architecture.