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Palantir Technologies reviews

3.8

63% would recommend to a friend

(894 total reviews)
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Alex Karp

72% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Palantir Technologies has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 894 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Palantir Technologies employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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894 reviews
2.0
Jun 23, 2013

Figured out what I didn't want

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good food, fun people. I made some friends there that I will probably have for the rest of my life. Challenging. Lots of learning potential.

Cons

They give you "unlimited vacation time" but its VERY hard to take time off. The culture is such that most of the employees live there. Yes, there are a ton of perks (game room, nap rooms, food, dry cleaning/laundry, alcohol, parties, etc..) but it's all designed to keep you there as much as possible. Working a 20 hour day doesn't even get you a thank you and you're simply expected to just be at work at your regular time the next morning. Now for the biggest problem : Management. They have promoted very young, inexperienced people to management who simply don't have good people skills. It's also very clicky. If you don't attend every social event, you will be punished. Palantir is probably great for you if you're fresh out of college and you're willing to live to work. I worked there for over 2 years and it burned me out.

2.0
May 24, 2013
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Pros

Good food Intelligent people to work with Nice space Friendly

Cons

Middle management is a mess. There has been many unnecessary conflicts due to incompetence in middle management. Workers are extremely full of themselves and must always emphasize that they are the "best". QE feels the need to emphasize their "importance" while devs blame their errors on others. I repeat; devs are always blaming others!!! While there are great people at Palantir, there are also cliques that like to "party hard and go drinking" and brag about it in the workplace quite obnoxiously.

1.0
May 22, 2013

Not worth it.

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Pros

Great food. Great perks. Enterprise grade software. You might get rich (unlikely).

Cons

Smart folks are leaving. Middling middle management that is cancerous. A culture for the sake of culture. Recruitment is broken. Senior management is afraid of losing engineers. Power battles. Clueless QA and elitist devs. Two product teams separated by University ave. No feedback process.

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