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Palantir had a booth at a Summer internship expo I went to once. I asked them what the deal was with helping the NSA in their surveillance capabilities and what
by spondyl 9y ago
Palantir had a booth at a Summer internship expo I went to once. I asked them what the deal was with helping the NSA in their surveillance capabilities and what not. The guy said he was impressed that "I had the courage to ask tough questions" and asked for my details. They sent me a test but not being super experienced as a dev, I didn't get much further than that. I still got a free shirt so I can rep them when we're full 1984 :)
- davesque 9y agoThat was a sith mind trick.
- RickS 9y ago> I asked them what the deal was with helping the NSA in their surveillance capabilities and what not Tshirt nonwithstanding, did you actually get any answers about the question?
- spondyl 9y agoFrom what I remember, the guy kinda nodded his head a bunch and said that these are the tough questions we need to be asking which is why we hire bright minds. He also went on to say how employees are treated really well which was kinda misdirecting the conversation. Another team I chatted with considered themselves the anti-Palantir which was pretty funny. Palantir was honestly surprised I had even heard of them since apparently no one else had and this was at closing time.
- ddorian43 9y agoTLDR: Ofc No.
- tomcooks 9y agoTL;DR: Ofc get the dude's details then say no
- woolvalley 9y agoWhat company considered themselves the anti-palantir?
- spondyl 9y agoWell, it wasn't like an official stance so I won't name them. Odds are you won't have heard of them anyway :)
- godelmachine 9y agoMaybe they took your details to mark you as a possible adversary :D To add you to the data set that goes into their classifier CP -> Zola's algorithm from Captain America
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- username223 9y ago> ... and asked for my details. If you weren't before, you're definitely on some lists now.
- spondyl 9y agoIf ideas are infectious then you'll be on it just for commenting, right? ;)
- FLUX-YOU 9y agoDo you remember what questions were on the test?
- spondyl 9y agoYou can view it here: https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/8lll5tqesnh https://www.hackerrank.com/tests/8lll5tqesnh It was one question around detecting contractor fraud. From what I remember, your STDIN would be a stream of logs containing start and end times for a job. eg Alice 13:05 START Bill 13:06 START Alice 13:08 FINISH Bill 13:09 START In the above, Alice is fine because she started and finished her job but Bill would be flagged for possibly fraud for starting a new job before finishing his old one. I think there might've been some additional criteria too. Anyway, you had to scan the incoming data and return any possible anomalies. I guess that's a possible insight to what they're working on?
- ransom1538 9y agoYeah from Theil's books he leads to it. In fraud, people and computers combined are pretty powerful. So the company just creates tools to help a human find issues. An analyst would come into work and see a massive dashboard, then notice contractors pay has doubled since last week, then drill into "contractor irregularities", then see one user perform 200 jobs in the last hour, then click on the user's geo information and realize it comes from an IP address in Florida, then they click on "open ports", the machine has port 80 open (hacked). They resolve the problem by creating a new rule, "IF user job count > X, per hour || port 80 open, pause payment && report". etc etc. They just keep adjusting these rules to keep fraud rates down. It isn't ever 0, but they keep modifying the rules to minimize OVER and UNDER reports. It is comically basic.
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- tritium 9y agoSo, the guy “Travis Bickled” you?
- emmelaich 9y agoHaha, exactly what I thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycyEzZfSddo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycyEzZfSddo