Working for Palantir right out of high school?

[Anonymous]

My DC has a friend who was accepted to HYP early but is now taking a gap year to work for Palantir (which I've heard is actively recruiting high school graduates).

Is this a good idea? I can't tell. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

PS Let's keep politics out of this. Just want to look at this from a purely academic/professional view point.

[Anonymous]

I'm pro-gap-years but con-soul-selling. Not sure how that shakes out in this case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pro-gap-years but con-soul-selling. Not sure how that shakes out in this case.

Same but this seems ripe for abuse. Taking an 18 year old and putting them in a tech company for year seems like a bad idea.

[Anonymous]

Not a bad idea if the kid knows what he wants. People start their small business then drop out of colleges as well. Not something new

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DC has a friend who was accepted to HYP early but is now taking a gap year to work for Palantir (which I've heard is actively recruiting high school graduates).

Is this a good idea? I can't tell. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

PS Let's keep politics out of this. Just want to look at this from a purely academic/professional view point.

Is it a good idea to get a job on the Death Star? I can't tell. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts!

PS let's keep politics out of this! Just wanna look at this from a purely professional view point!

[Anonymous]

Op kind of bizarre that you “want to keep politics out of this” but don’t acknowledge that Palantir has been a huge beneficiary of Trump administration government contracts. Is your child ok working on initiatives consolidating citizen data that may violate laws on data protection and privacy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DC has a friend who was accepted to HYP early but is now taking a gap year to work for Palantir (which I've heard is actively recruiting high school graduates).

Is this a good idea? I can't tell. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

PS Let's keep politics out of this. Just want to look at this from a purely academic/professional view point.

Is it a good idea to get a job on the Death Star? I can't tell. Would love to hear everyone's thoughts!

PS let's keep politics out of this! Just wanna look at this from a purely professional view point!

+1 op is just posting click bait so she can post Peter Thiel psychobabble.

[Anonymous]

Make sure he works on the plan to send these billionnaire tech bros to Mars as soon as possible so we can get back to fixing the real problems we have here on Earth.

[Anonymous]

The reality is most of your kids are gonna work for psychopaths.

[Anonymous]

A gap year before college to work for a tech company could be interesting, but I'd find it much more interesting to pursue some kind of passion project or a more "real world" job.

I don't know how you keep politics out of it, when you've explicitly named the company...and it's one that is extremely controversial. TBH, I can only imagine that they are looking for HS grads in order to get them early, before they can fully understand the context of what they are doing.

[Anonymous]

It’s never a good idea to work for Palantir.

[Anonymous]

My CS major will be interning with them this summer <ducks>.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My CS major will be interning with them this summer <ducks>.

Hope they know it will be a negative for future jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s never a good idea to work for Palantir.

This

[Anonymous]

NO!