Palantir CEO Alex Karp hawked his new book on CNBC. He kicked it off with a penis punchline, "it's kind of risque"..."off color movie"..."hard power, soft"..."it's hard to know." He got his own joke, as evidenced by Alex's giggling.
In addition to promoting his book, he pushed Palantir as a standard for expert employees. A Glassdoor review noted:
No annual salary increases for either performance or cost of living.
CEO is awful - a total narcissist. He well make comments about people's personal appearance and ethnicity in very inappropriate ways. Surrounded by "yes" people.
Absolutely spineless senior leadership - no one in the "inner circle " will speak truth to power. The only reason there are not more lawsuits is that they tie your exit package to not providing evidence in any lawsuit against the company.
Leadership is misogynistic and xenophobic. Founders use marketing as their own personal PR which doesn't help sell the product.
Extremely classist culture - almost all employees come from wealth and privilege. Sales leadership is non-existent. Never seen so many star, best in their market, heavy hitters not be able to perform due to the toxic culture. They are not interested in solving problems.
My comment after watching Karp's interview:
What a prick, hate to listen to Alex carping.... Most of what Karp just said is complete bullshit. Shows how far the leadership bar has fallen.
Create your own reality (paradigm), out of thin air....Blast anyone who disagrees with your brilliance...use legal terms without any reference to their foundation (fraud)...
We met people like that in grade school and they were assholes and bullies. Alex has a bully pulpit and the arrogant, selfish VC dookie is flying.
Karp is not always right, but he's sure you're always wrong. Isn't that a variation of being always right? Consider another Palantir employee review:
Company is run primarily by 22-26 year olds, and middle management "leads" are usually 1-2 years out of college. Accordingly, wisdom and experience are non-existent and people go completely off vibes and winging it so there is little foresight and sh*t hits the fan constantly
....experienced people can end up making less than new grads as their packages don't get adjusted.
"Con: Building the airplane as you fly it"
My wise friend wrote:
KARP is another genius that does not like to answer questions. When Andrew asked him if there was a way to do this (eliminate government waste) without all the privacy concerns he avoids the question....mere mortals cannot understand. He is like the universe; it keeps growing and morphing. So God like.
