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We run high-touch recruiting programs with a small number of schools. We send people to their career fairs. We take multiple years to build a strong presence on
by legerdemain 4y ago
We run high-touch recruiting programs with a small number of schools. We send people to their career fairs. We take multiple years to build a strong presence on campus. Our recruiting team has finite resources and time.
As a result, our hiring program only directly targets Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, CMU, UW, UM, and a small set of other US schools. Recently, we dropped Northwestern from our list, because it just wasn't yielding a good number of candidates.
We obviously hire candidates from a variety of other schools and backgrounds, but we don't seek them out. For example, we'll reach out to you if someone already at Palantir makes a strong recommendation. But we are absolutely not looking for you as a first priority ahead of our college hiring.
- qntty 4y agoChoosing to use your limited recruiting resources wisely is one thing. Saying that most schools outside the top 4-5 are diploma mills where students hire people to do their classwork is straight up lying, and deserves to be called out.
- legerdemain 4y agoI thought that the HN crowd, on average, strongly believed that CS programs filled students' heads with theoretical garbage, and that most students just parroted back the textbook to get through assignments and rode each other's coattails to get through group projects. This is our experience with our candidates. If you think there's an arbitrage opportunity here, best of luck to you in your recruiting endeavours.
- qntty 4y agoYou're moving the goalposts here.
- xkqd 4y ago> ... believed that CS programs filled students' heads with theoretical garbage I'm not sure I'd call my algorithms, operating systems, and core CS classes theoretical garbage, but I guess I value not dedicating semesters to the front end framework or GitHub repository of the week. If anything, I now regret not paying more attention during my undergrad. I don't want to extrapolate this too much for obvious reasons, but did this firm also view math, physics, etc. degrees as full of theoretical garbage?
- throwaway_1928 4y agoIronic that Palantir was founded by the guy who encouraged high school students to skip college [1]. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/2017/03/03/peter-thiel-fellowship-college-higher-education-559261.html https://www.newsweek.com/2017/03/03/peter-thiel-fellowship-c...
- legerdemain 4y agoI should point out that most Thiel fellows have already completed college and were doing graduate studies before 20. They're not high-schoolers.
- barry-cotter 4y agoNone of the Thiel Fellow recipients listed on Wikipedia have any mention of a completed undergraduate or postgraduate degree. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of them do but being a college dropout is definitely more common than having completed college in any normal terms.
- tomc1985 4y agoSeems like a great way to have an engineering monoculture, what with all the good old boys at the Ivy Leagues
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