An Update on the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties
In October 2012, Palantir announced the formation of our Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP). In January 2014, we announced the expansion of the PCAP to include a group...
View ArticleHow to Ace a Software Decomp Interview
Coding. Algorithms. System Design. These interviews, to assess core skills necessary for a successful career at Palantir, remain at the heart of our hiring process. But as our company and products have...
View ArticlePalantir at StrataRX 2012: Doing Big Data By Yourself
Lauren Chaparro and I were honored to be among the speakers at Strata RX 2012, O’Reilly’s conference on the use of big data in health care/medical field. Our talk was called “Doing Big Data All By...
View ArticlePrivacy, Civil Liberties, and Video Analytics: Part 1
During the past year and a half, Palantir has been developing Palantir Video, a video analytics application that will allow Palantir Gotham users to better integrate video information into the rest of...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Palantir Council on Privacy and Civil Liberties
Last month, at Palantir’s GovCon8 event, our CEO, Dr. Alex Karp, announced the creation of the Palantir Council of Advisors on Privacy and Civil Liberties (PCAP). This Council of experts has been...
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How to Ace a Developer Phone Interview
We wrote a popular series of posts last year on how toace Palantiron-siteinterviews. However, this advice does you no good if you don’t make it past the first hurdle: the phone interview. In this post,...
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Product Support at Palantir: Let Me Help You With That
(Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons License)When a user has to contact Product Support for help, he or she already has a problem. Dealing with Support should never add aggravation on top of...
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The UI Design Interview
Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons LicenseOur frontend engineering candidates go through many of the same types of interviews as our backend candidates, i.e., algo and coding. But because...
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How to Ace a Systems Design Interview
Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons LicenseNote: this third installment in our series on doing your best in interviews. Previously: How to Ace an Algorithms Interview and The Coding...
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The Coding Interview
Note: this part is part two of our series on doing your best in interviews. Part one: “How to Ace an Algorithms Interview”Here at Palantir algorithms are important, but code is our lifeblood. We live...
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How to Ace an Algorithms Interview
Comic courtesy of XKCD, via Creative Commons LicenseWe do a lot of interviewing at Palantir, and let me tell you: it’s hard. I don’t mean that we ask tough questions (although we do). I mean that the...
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Palantir Hack Week 2015
Last week, we held our 7th annual Hack Week. Each year, when Hack Week rolls around, we pause all normal work and form ad-hoc teams to create prototypes of new features, or even whole new products.And...
View ArticleIntroducing the CPG Consortium
We’re partnering with J.P. Bilbrey, CEO of The Hershey Company, to build a consortium that redefines how the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry uses data. This alliance of CPG manufacturers and...
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Operation Double Trouble: Supporting Recovery Efforts in Wimberley
A series of flash floods hit Wimberley, Texas over Memorial Day weekend, sweeping away more than 1,000 homes and killing a dozen people. Within hours, Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization founded...
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Palantir welcomes she++ College Ambassadors
At Palantir, we make supporting the next generation of technologists a priority. We believe an important part of that mission is supporting a diverse group of people interested in technology, which is...
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Scholarship for Women in Engineering
At Palantir, our mission is to find or develop solutions for the world’s hardest problems. Since 2010, our annual scholarship has helped us discover and reward students doing just that. Our scholarship...
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Women in Cybersecurity Conversation and Cocktails
Please join us for an evening of conversation. Women in Cybersecurity will connect women who are leaders, experts, and practitioners in the cybersecurity field to share their diverse experiences and...
View ArticleHousing Homeless Veterans with Palantir Homelink
It is estimated that on any given night, 50,000 veterans are homeless in the United States, including over 12,000 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. For homeless veterans across the U.S., the process of...
View ArticleFood for Thought: Improving Farmer Livelihoods on 3 Continents
With much of the US focusing on the dinner table at Thanksgiving, we at Palantir wanted to share a video about our work helping Grameen Foundation and other partner organizations use data to alleviate...
View ArticleC4ADS helps East African authorities and local NGOs seize over $10MM in...
Throughout 2014, our partners at C4ADS have been using Palantir Gotham to uncover illicit networks involved in elephant poaching and the lucrative illegal ivory trade. C4ADS has integrated and analyzed...
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