Working for Palantir right out of high school?

[Anonymous]

Ugh. *Thiel* above

[Anonymous]

Better just to go to college and then do internships if they are that good.

[Anonymous]

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

+1 And if you actually want your kid to go to college having him take a gap year making a LOT of money seems counter to that plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the kid is a great coder, they don’t need Palantir to make it—college or another internship will introduce them to much more cutting edge ideas. (You don’t have to be cutting edge, just morally bankrupt, to enable a genocide). If the kid is a so-so coder, they may just end up as a piece of a$$. Thief had a great weekend with Epstein, and Karp shows up to interviews high as a kite. Should 18-year-olds be sent off to work for people like that?

You actually think an entry level hire would be hobnobbing with the founder and CEO? Ok, then. What an active imagination you have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the kid is a great coder, they don’t need Palantir to make it—college or another internship will introduce them to much more cutting edge ideas. (You don’t have to be cutting edge, just morally bankrupt, to enable a genocide). If the kid is a so-so coder, they may just end up as a piece of a$$. Thief had a great weekend with Epstein, and Karp shows up to interviews high as a kite. Should 18-year-olds be sent off to work for people like that?

You actually think an entry level hire would be hobnobbing with the founder and CEO? Ok, then. What an active imagination you have.

You're absolutely right, but I'm a strong believer that those behavior, and the culture, will go top down and I bet most of the organization are people like that. I wouldn't be surprised.

[Anonymous]

Truly terrible idea.

[Anonymous]

Kids know all about Palantir. There will be social consequences.

[Anonymous]

Why would you go work at a bad job for a year instead moving forward toward getting a good job after graduation?

[Anonymous]

But the gestapo also hires typists!

[Anonymous]

Embrace your inner Saruman

[Anonymous]

OMG. The hysteria on this site never ends.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately it will be bad for his reputation

[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.

You can’t work for Palantir and “keep politics out of it”. It’s a f—king evil company that’s not even trying to hide it.

[Anonymous]

If they want to continie working in that political sphere, it would do no harm. But, in the same way that I would never hire anyone who came out of Liberty University, I would never hire anyone who came from Palantir.

And neither Liberty University graduates or Palantir alum are a protected class, so no, it would not be illegal for me to not hire these people

[Anonymous]

I would never, ever hire someone who worked for Palantir unless they became a famous whistleblower whose information destroyed the Death Star from within.

Wait? Is that political?

Absolutely no. WTH?