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Palantir Technologies

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Welcome to the Stanford Prison Experiment - Strategic Account Executive Palantir Technologies Employee Review

1.0
7 Mar 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Great food served 3 times per day The engineers are generally very smart and capable people

Cons

This must be the worst-run sales organization in the country. Working at Palantir in sales requires joining a company that swore for almost 20 years that salespeople were useless and toxic but was forced to hire salespeople by their investors. This stifling attitude is stronger than ever and will make you miserable. The comp plan is a total lie and they routinely stiff sellers or fire them just before commissions and stock vests are due. Half or more of every onboarding class is fired within 3 months for not having a qualified F500 opportunity (on an 18 month average sales cycle!). If you manage to create an opportunity, you can still get fired if you have mildly inconvenienced any engineer and they decide to say something about it. They will stick “deal captains” aka their irrationally chosen favorites onto your deal and pay them half of your commission. Much like Stanford Prison Experiment, these people are completely invested in their false little world and will abuse you to no end. They have zero sense of business ethics or respect and the only way to win their game is to simply not play. RUN from these people.

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5.0
29 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Responsibility & Autonomy: you will be given real problems to solve and the freedom to make decisions to go solve them - Able to work on very interesting technical problems - Mission - Ability to define your own growth

Cons

- Hours can be long - Lack of structure for newer folks can be difficult to navigate

2.0
8 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Most talented, smart and industrious group of people I've ever worked with. Unfortunately, smart people can be easily deceived.

Cons

If you are in Business Development (BD) - i.e. Delta or Echo - this job will be your life. They deliberately underhire - they claim it's to maintain the culture, but really it's to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of you. You are thrown into chaotic situations with no way out but to "chew glass and excrete product". Don't let the flat heirarchy and encouragement of confrontation / open debate deceive you. Karp has majority founder shares and calls the shots. The company is a dictatorship, not a democracy. Resourcing is a black box. If you are a U.S person without a clearance, you will be bait-and-switched into defense even if you thought you could avoid it. With clearance, you'll end up on something much worse. Trust your gut - the company's leadership are not wise, nuanced philosophers - they are spineless, shifty edgelords with no ethical red lines. As a FDE, you will spend half your time working around stupid limitations in the platform you could not foresee when making grand promises to the customer. Foundry is not a cutting edge product, just like Microsoft Suite is not a cutting edge product. Its just too broad for any other company to easily copy it. Palantir just brought middle-of-the-road Silicon valley tech to old-school government, slapped some AI integration onto it and shrouded it in a veil of mystery to make it seem cool and mysterious and appeal to retail investors.

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