Palantir says college is no longer a reliable training ground

https://fortune.com/2025/11/05/palantir-colleges-no-longer-reliable-training-ground-gen-z-hire-22-high-school-students-fellowship/

by pedrodelfino • 7 months ago

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taylodl• 7 months ago

College was never a "training ground." If these companies want a "trained" workforce then they can pay for it themselves. But no, they prefer to freeload off of vulnerable students.

techblueberry• 7 months ago

Can Palantir scale this to 60,000 students? What’s the relative scale in costs? And what is the change in reliability? Within universities or between universities? I have a hard time believing Oklahoma state ever produced the same quality or reliability of students as Stanford, and I find it hard to believe Palantir still isn’t setting up a boot at the Stanford career fairs.

What is the alternative for the 2 million or so(surprised it was this low) students who graduate college every year? Certainly it’s not the 22 spots at Palantir?

legerdemain• 7 months ago

Tell me when they stop hiring 80% of their devs from the same 5 top CS schools.

Not "FDEs," not solution architects, not SREs, not BD/"Echos," not tech support. I get that it's a consulting org with a "boots on the ground" mentality. Tell me where their devs come from

zeroc8• 7 months ago

Skip indoctrination so that we can easier indoctrinate you...

Palantir says college is no longer a reliable training ground

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