McLean has decent people, but not best company in area for pay, growth, culture
Pros
- People are great, helpful, and really intelligent. Interview system works. - Food service is always high quality. - Co-workers are all genuine, friends in and outside of work - Work has good customer and mission sense - Products try to stay on top of tech curve
Cons
- Not hiring fast enough, burn out is evident on every team with the Forward Deployed Engineers - Feels like a consulting job going from customers to customers, traffic in DC adds hours to your day. - Compensation is not good in DC area, hard to save for buying house or settling down - Certain teams can work a normal 30-40 hour week, others up to 65-80 - Promotions don't align with hard work - People get fired really quickly at Palantir - No sense of growth as a forward deployed engineer, you feel like a cog - New opportunities aren't given to all employees, just the same ones over and over.
