Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]

Post by qq66 » Wed, Sep 17, 2014, 5:17 PM UTC

dreamweapon wrote: post #73

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I did some consulting work with the NYPD and heard you guys also have some deployments with them and other large police forces. Those are nice non-clearance, but cool, jobs as well.

"Cool" I guess, if you consider working for the NYPD to be cool. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner [2] https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/nypd-muslim-surveillance [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop-and-frisk_in_New_York_Cit...

Post by irremediable » Wed, Sep 17, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

elblanco wrote: post #82

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I'm not comfortable going one way or another on Palantir, but... > They hide their sales guys as "forward deployed engineers" and obfuscate their sales process to the point where it doesn't seem like you've ever dealt with the kind of sketchy enterprise sales goon you'd deal with from any of their competitors. Really? I've known a couple of forward deployed engineers there, and I assure you, they're not salespeople.

Here's a long thread on just this topic here on Hacker News. One of their senior engineers jumped in to "clarify". It's worth reading the entire exchange. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1461136 I think these days they've deobfuscated the roles a bit. But back during this discussion, they were definitely hiring and mixing in sales people with their "deployed" engineers. Most of these guys would probably be sales…

Post by elblanco » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 12:47 AM UTC

14yearsofsnow wrote: post #94

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Here's a long thread on just this topic here on Hacker News. One of their senior engineers jumped in to "clarify". It's worth reading the entire exchange. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1461136 I think these days they've deobfuscated the roles a bit. But back during this discussion, they were definitely hiring and mixing in sales people with their "deployed" engineers. Most of these guys would probably be sales…

I worked at Palantir for a number of years, and was heavily involved the hiring of Forward Deployed Engineers. The vast majority of FDEs did serious software development. There are only a few people I can think of who were not engineers, and their presence on deployments had to do with the alignment between their analytical background and the customer's focus.

Post by sxoxox » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 5:23 AM UTC

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eldemar is providing some of the information. I'd add some color the i2 suit. The fraud perpetrated by Palantir was actually so organized and so bad (they set up an entirely fake front company in another state), that the suing company asked the judge for the case to be tried under RICO rules...which are basically rules put in place to fight the mafia. The judge agreed that it qualified under the law (immediately trip…

I'm always surprised how cheap it is to buy politicians. I would expect a company like Palantir to spend much more than 1.1 million on lobbying. Does anybody know how much the 'consultancy fees' to former government officials are in total?

Post by peterjancelis » Thu, Sep 18, 2014, 7:21 PM UTC

wh1tekn1ght wrote: post #81

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I'm always surprised how cheap it is to buy politicians. I would expect a company like Palantir to spend much more than 1.1 million on lobbying. Does anybody know how much the 'consultancy fees' to former government officials are in total?

If you think Palantir spends a lot on lobbying, check out how much Boeing, Lockheed, and other multi-billion dollar contracting companies spend on lobbying. $1.1mm is probably what they spend on food in a month.