Pros: They deal with some very interesting problems.

Cons: Management is going through growing pains and doesn't know how to allocate work properly. Sometimes it seemed fairly haphazard in organizing. Pressure to work a ton.

Pros: People are fantastic. Culture is fantastic.

Cons: The role for PRE is one that requires you to be “on call” at odd hours, which makes work/life balance difficult at times. Also, Palantir is not for everyone ethically. Make sure you read up on what they’re actually involved in. They’ll pull you in by telling you they need good people on the inside, but ultimately you’re working on the software that powers wars.

Pros: There are two big reasons to work at Palantir (in addition to a myriad of smaller ones): * It's the sharpest group of people you'll ever get to work with. * You'll be working on some of the most important problems society has regarding technology. One of the cool features of Palantir that differentiates the company from the walled-garden (and useful, not knocking them) experiences one gets at Google, Dropbox, Facebook, etc., is that Palantir deals with problems in the messy world, in a wide variety of industries—healthcare, law enforcement, disaster relief, energy, fraud, etc.—and puts a lot of responsibility on individual employees to map new problems in the messy world to sets of existing or not existing (and needing to be built) pieces of software, to solve the problem. It's really empowering and an exciting change of pace from what much of Silicon Valley considers important.

Cons: The downside of interacting with the messy world is that you can't easily construct a narrative about your business and expect it to remain unchanged (e.g., Dropbox being the place you store your files, or Google categorizing the world's information). As a rapidly growing company, Palantir has been forced to constantly refine its mission and why it operates the way it operates. This can lead to a lot of ambiguity and anxiety, as the unknown always has a tendency to do.