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I wouldn't have been eligible to work for them anyway, given who their customers are and that I would not be able to get a security clearance as a foreign natio
by janoc 6y ago
I wouldn't have been eligible to work for them anyway, given who their customers are and that I would not be able to get a security clearance as a foreign national (yay for headhunters not bothering to do their homework).
The rest of your argument is just nonsense, sorry. If that was the case, then why to pay a recruiter to actively reach out to me? It is not like they don't have enough job seeking applicants at their doors, even today.
And they certainly did even 10 years ago when the above has happened and all the bad press about the shady stuff Palantir is/was involved in had yet to come out - before Facebook scandals, before Cambridge Analytica (where Palantir was involved), before Trump election (Palantir's founder Thiel is big Trump's donor), etc.
- jacquesm 6y agoPalantir needs true believers. Not potential whistle-blowers.
- oogali 6y ago> If that was the case, then why to pay a recruiter to actively reach out to me? Recruiters are not paid up front, nor for the number of candidates they bring. Recruiters are paid when a candidate accepts the job, so it’s in their interest to throw as many candidates as possible at the client in order to increase their chances of closing one. Why? Because recruiters are not paid a fixed amount per se, but 15-25% of your first year’s salary.
- randycupertino 6y agoPalantir also has internal recruiters who make a base salary.