Pros: It is a company that pays money and offers benefits. It has employees who are all in the same boat.

Cons: Leadership under AK are shells of people. I would say so much more, but simply put: Don't.

Pros: The compensation is above average at the start. You get exposed to many production responsibilities quite early. If you are a new grad (and everyone is), this is a good way to learn good industry standards and practices about software engineering. The office is amazing, but you get indifferent to it quite fast. Your peers are often interesting new grads like you are.

Cons: The compensation does not grow adequately (20% after 18M + 5%/y). The organization is chaotic, political, and non-meritocratic. The so-called "architects" are mostly there for historic and political reasons and are not impressive, but they really believe they are. They often take unexplained, untransparent, and authoritative decisions that serve their agenda. The horizons are always short-term. The vision is always at most a few months away. The codebases are quite poor and hard to maintain, having been written fast at first. They are often slow and buggy. As long as it mostly works, the original author will have moved on to a new shiny project. Refactoring, improving performance, and correctness are seldom rewarded, even though the services do not scale for the vast majority. What matters only is to start the project. Projects done in-house are reinventing the wheel of better existing open-source alternatives. There is no project with significant depth. It is mostly about building shiny apps for the platform. Your peers are all new grads like you, and very few have industry experience. Clueless people are often the most pretentious.

Pros: The company treats interns well. The perks are good (food, housing, laundry, gym, etc.), and the salary is very high for software engineers. Engineers are, on average, very smart and think/code fast.

Cons: If you are inexperienced, you will probably have a very short time at the company, even if you do your best to adapt. They put interns in ongoing projects which are often changing and blame you if you perform poorly or don't keep up. They are unwilling to inform you about technologies you should know upon arrival and will just kick you out of a project if you don't speed up within a couple of days. They expect amazing results in a matter of weeks, even if you are still in college. Even though they have weekly intern/mentor feedback, the feedback is poor. You pretty much have to read the minds of project leads, most of whom, by the way, are often rude to you and usually too busy to answer any inquiries or questions you may have. They will blame you for wasting their time if you even try. Palantir is also ethically dubious, as they have multiple concurrent banks to whom they work and keep secret from one another. They often urge interns and full-time software engineers to post positive reviews on Glassdoor.