Working for Palantir right out of high school?

[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?

[Anonymous]

Listen your kid is smart, and if they are an amazing software talent they should get a PhD in AI and pull in $1M/year.

Palantir is hiring high school students because they can be saavy enough to so some technical work but dumb enough to not worry about legality or ethics. I would worry about his judgement and lack of experience in protecting himself.

Similar to the reason theres a Fountainhead scholarship, get them while they are young.

[Anonymous]

Bad idea. It's better to get your degree before you get sucked in by fast easy money and then laid off a decade later with no degree. Not to mention who they would be working for.

Friend of mine went to work for IBM b for the finished college. Was great for about 20 years and then, boom, layoff when he was about 40. Never finished a college degree so couldn't even do IT for state government and it took him a few years to find a decent job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen your kid is smart, and if they are an amazing software talent they should get a PhD in AI and pull in $1M/year.

Palantir is hiring high school students because they can be saavy enough to so some technical work but dumb enough to not worry about legality or ethics. I would worry about his judgement and lack of experience in protecting himself.

Similar to the reason theres a Fountainhead scholarship, get them while they are young.

You can be an amazing software talent but don't have the high level math chops for an AI PhD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bad idea. It's better to get your degree before you get sucked in by fast easy money and then laid off a decade later with no degree. Not to mention who they would be working for.

Friend of mine went to work for IBM b for the finished college. Was great for about 20 years and then, boom, layoff when he was about 40. Never finished a college degree so couldn't even do IT for state government and it took him a few years to find a decent job.

This resonates with me. If your kid is absolutely going to keep it to a year and is doing this because the opportunity exists now and may not exist 4 years from now, sure, I could see it as beneficial for a kid to get some real world experience at Palantir especially as it relates to coding experience. However, if that turns into a few years or more, then in the long run, I think the experience will be a disservice to his long-term potential. I don't think you're going to be able to get the jobs you want or grow professionally without a degree. I feel like a lot of these kids who are being lured away from college (happens primarily in the tech field because of the history of tech entrepreneurs) now won't all turn into Jobs, or Gates or Zuckerberg and then what ... what's the game plan 20 years from now if you didn't take it upon yourself to get out and get the degree?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen your kid is smart, and if they are an amazing software talent they should get a PhD in AI and pull in $1M/year.

Palantir is hiring high school students because they can be saavy enough to so some technical work but dumb enough to not worry about legality or ethics. I would worry about his judgement and lack of experience in protecting himself.

Similar to the reason theres a Fountainhead scholarship, get them while they are young.

At least one of Musk's DOGE high-profile kids fit this profile, except I believe he received a Thiel fellowship before going to work for Neuralink.

I'm sure his parents wanted to leave politics out of it!