Comment by lrvick
8 hours ago
They almost exclusively hire fresh grads who need money more than ethics, and it shows in everything they do.
8 hours ago
They almost exclusively hire fresh grads who need money more than ethics, and it shows in everything they do.
Exactly like any other big tech (Google, Microsoft, etc) or consulting (McKinsey, Deloitte, etc) company!
There really isn't anything special about Palantir the company. They have disrupted consulting on marketing alone (all this forward-deployed stuff is more fluff than anything) which is not unheard of, and continue to receive all this bad press due to their clientele and the kind of data they're processing. Government departments, military. They are happy to take credit for all the "conniving" allegations because it makes them look like they have a plan, and anybody with purchasing power involving with them knows it corresponds very little to the company operationally, i.e. what the company does.
Well yes, all the big tech companies are just as corrupt as Palintir, but only Palintir is actively making tech purpose built to enable some of the most vile people on the planet to more easily physically kidnap and harm human beings for money. They are trying to be 1930s IBM
It's interesting to see how their CEO plays into the whole thing, trying to look paranoid/crazy/brutal/.... It's really just branding/marketing. It's similar to how certain politicians in the US present themselves through vice signalling. Doesn't matter what goes on in the background, the unwashed masses will think things must be happening.