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Successful interns will be interviewed for full-time roles. “Skip the debt,” the posting read. “Skip the indoctrination. Get the Palantir Degree.”
However, this young talent may be hired to build programs that will eventually lead to their replacement by AI. Karp admitted last year that he hopes to reduce his workforce by 500 employees.
We’re planning to grow our revenue … while decreasing our number of people,” Karp told CNBC in August. “This is a crazy, efficient revolution. The goal is to get 10x revenue and have 3,600 people. We have now 4,100.”
https://fortune.com/article/billionaire-palantir-ceo-alex-karp-working-at-his-tech-firm-better-than-harvard-yale-princeton-degree-does-not-matter-gen-z/