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Palantir Technologies reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(889 total reviews)
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Alex Karp

74% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Palantir Technologies has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 889 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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889 reviews
4.0
Aug 18, 2015

3 Years, International Office

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Pros

You'd be hard pressed to find any other organisation that gives you this much scope to define your own growth path, and figure out how and where you can add value to the team and business. Our recruiting process is the bane of my existence, I am constantly frustrated that we can't hire more people because of how particular we are with our requirements - BUT - this is what has built the incredible team I work with now. No dead wood, everyone's a rock star, and I genuinely like spending time with these people. All of them. I know everyone's experience here is different, but if you work hard, are thoughtful about what it is you're doing, and how you're impacting the team - then you generally have a ridiculous amount of opportunities open to you for doing new things. Travel, projects, experiments, working in different areas of the business, building new capability, or working in other offices. The perks and flexibility are great, and do a lot of what their supposed to do - reduce some of the overheads of everyday life admin - allowing you to be more productive.

Cons

We can't hire enough people to meet all the work we have - which means we're all super busy and you have to prioritise like a magician. And it might mean you don't get to work on the thing you are personally attached to because it's not the highest priority. That can suck. But it's a business. We can be too thoughtful/introspective as a company sometimes - which should probably be kept at the "higher" levels - because the trickle down effect is that people end up questioning the priority, validity, strategy of what they're doing constantly, instead of just getting on with it. As a company we're resistant to bringing on people that are just good at managing other people/areas of a business - and engineers generally don't make great people leaders. This is an area there is a lot of work going into to improve, but sometimes it feels we err too heavily away from the traditional routes - some of these things are conventional because they work.

4.0
Aug 25, 2015
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Pros

Transformative projects with customers who matter. A grade employees, driven towards material impact. A very high degree of autonomy awarded to staff.

Cons

Resourcing - there are more opportunities than staff. Sometimes this means staff get stuck with one customer, sometimes it means that ownership can be lacking as staff move through a customer to fight a fire rather than truly fix an issue in a sustainable way. Workforce not especially diverse, despite everyone's efforts to address this. Being in a branch office, it is sometimes hard to divine strategic and tactical vision - conversely we are given wide latitude to chart our own destiny.

2.0
Feb 26, 2024

Poor APAC Leadership

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Pros

- Interesting global company, with interesting companies or government clients to work with. - Comp is okay.

Cons

- Benefits are being scaled back significantly. - Extremely political, it's all about who you know in the company and how long you've worked there. Little care for "impact" as they claim. - Worked there for years without comp review processes occurring, felt very exploited. - APAC specific: poor leadership, lack of experience in the region. - Staff are leaving APAC (especially its government team) in droves.

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