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Outside of the minority in the Twittersphere bubble most engineers are apolitical. Palantir offers the opportunity to work on interesting software solving inter
by ng12 7y ago
Outside of the minority in the Twittersphere bubble most engineers are apolitical. Palantir offers the opportunity to work on interesting software solving interesting problems and that gets them very far.
Defense contractors building bombs and the NSA don't really struggle to hire engineers, either. Assuming everyone has your same belief system is a critical mistake.
- fesoliveira 7y agoAre you sure about that last point? I remember reading somewhere that U.S. government agencies were having a hard time hiring tech talent, as they did not pay as well as Silicon Valley nor had the same growth opportunities. Moreover, they had issues with the patriotic argument, as many millenials don't share the same ardent patriotism that previous generations had. It's been a while since I read that article, so things might have changed and I might be wrong.
- ng12 7y agoMy thinking is the former problems -- pay, growth, perks -- are more damaging to their hiring prospects than the actual work the US gov is doing.