@dangillmor@mastodon.social

My opinions about Palantir were first formed in 2013 during a recruiting process. We got to the job offer part. I wasn't particularly interested based on my interactions with the interviewets and the job description they gave during the process. Get to the compensation part and they wanted to offer $30k less than I was currently making and would have meant both more work and significant travel. I told them how far apart we were just from what my current compensation was. "We can't offer you that: that's more than the CEO makes" ... Utterly ignoring that the CEO was already quite wealthy and sitting on a massive block of pre-IPO shares (and there was lots of rumbling about how he was already collateralizing them).

Recruiters get annoyed at candidates that know nothing about the company they're interviewing with. They also get annoyed when you do "too much" research.


At any rate, everything about the interview process was icky. Everything in the news since has just further soured an already low opinion.