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Palantir is one of those companies that has used Valley tactics and perks (free gourmet food, gyms, ping pong tables, etc) to aggressively recruit tons of talen
by atonse 9y ago
Palantir is one of those companies that has used Valley tactics and perks (free gourmet food, gyms, ping pong tables, etc) to aggressively recruit tons of talent in the DC area to help build the surveillance state.
People I know have COMPLETELY drunk the kool-aid to the point where they wear Palantir t-shirts and walk around talking about being "forward deployed engineers" like a cult.
And I only blame them a little. The DC area is starved of such benefits, so it's easy to pick up tech talent.
- jrochkind1 9y agoI live in Baltimore, that's even worse, but I still won't work for any DoD contractors, even though that's where the money is around here. I'm sure I make significantly less than anyone working for Palintir and I don't have those "cool benefits". But I still make a hell of a lot more than most people in Baltimore (ie the median income in Baltimore, what 50% of people make less than). I'm not looking for praise, but, yeah, you can hold people responsible for the work they do, even if they do it for cool benefits. If you're willing to sell out for gourmet lunches and a ping-pong table, your price wasn't very high.
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