Re:What Palantir and the LAPD Know About You
by _5659 on Monday October 05, 2020 @10:04PM
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One time I interviewed with Palantir. First time I used Zoom. This was yeeears before it became an issue that they don't encrypt communications and I brought it up that I thought it was weird they're relying on third-parties for something that felt... vague but also security related?
In order to suss out exactly what apprehensions I was having about their corporation (forgive me, I knew they were operated by Peter Thiel and this and all that but I was willing giving to give them a fair shake since I was a lot younger and a lot more naive), basically what I asked was a simple question, "what exactly does Palantir do? Because I have read your marketing and releases and everything but I'd like to hear it straight from the horse's mouth with an employee."
"We leverage data."
Oh I see! Well it's 12:00PM and I see we're out of time, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me and looking forward to next steps.
I never hear back and spent the next few weeks horrified by the interaction.
Addendum: What got me the interview was the fact that I studied under one of the chief scientists behind PredPol. I understood how the technology worked and the basic logistics of how to implement it. Regardless of whether I believed in it, I knew how it worked. I think that's what they were after.
In order to suss out exactly what apprehensions I was having about their corporation (forgive me, I knew they were operated by Peter Thiel and this and all that but I was willing giving to give them a fair shake since I was a lot younger and a lot more naive), basically what I asked was a simple question, "what exactly does Palantir do? Because I have read your marketing and releases and everything but I'd like to hear it straight from the horse's mouth with an employee."
"We leverage data."
Oh I see! Well it's 12:00PM and I see we're out of time, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me and looking forward to next steps.
I never hear back and spent the next few weeks horrified by the interaction.
Addendum: What got me the interview was the fact that I studied under one of the chief scientists behind PredPol. I understood how the technology worked and the basic logistics of how to implement it. Regardless of whether I believed in it, I knew how it worked. I think that's what they were after.