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Reflections on Palantir

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479 points freditup | 1 comments | 16 Oct 24 02:18 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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austinjp ◴[17 Oct 24 07:50 UTC] No.41867353[source]▶
The article reveals depressing reasons why someone might choose to work for the lines of Palantir: lots of talented people working on hard problems. That's pretty much it. No problem with the business model, just intellectual hunger. I'm sure the pay didn't hurt.

We need to teach our students that the employment they take doesn't exist in a vacuum. Your choice of employee can impact not only yourself but the wider world. There's more to life than intellectual satisfaction.

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1. Aeolun ◴[17 Oct 24 10:00 UTC] No.41868032[source]▶
I sure don’t have any more glamorous reasons to work for the company I do.

They pay well, and that’s where the interest ends. There’s a lot of challenges in gluing CRUD together at a large enough scale, but it’s not exactly valuable to the greater world.