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Purpose, autonomy & mastery

Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Palantir for 4 years
August 25, 2015
Melbourne, Victoria
4.0
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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 is 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.

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