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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by Latty on Friday June 30, 2017 @10:41PM (#14675048)
> From what I've gleaned about Palantir over the years, they supposedly have one of the hardest dev interview processes.

I was working for a competitor when they tried to get me on board as one of their "forward deployed software engineers" - which appeared to be a lot of big talk for hiring a bunch of recent grads and burning them out pumping out menial interfaces for customers so they would feel they were getting value.

The interview was very normal, not particularly onerous.

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Re:NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract by kendallpark on Friday June 30, 2017 @10:43PM (#14675059)
From what I've heard, the "forward deployed software engineers" is a misleading position that gets software devs to work not software dev jobs.
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