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I assume they're gonna scoop up all the Palantir guys after the IPO.

How are they going to get the Palantir people? Doesn't Palantir pay extremely well?

I don't think people in this thread understand: The starting salary range for a "Technical Developer" is $60k-$150k according to their website. I imagine it's similar for CIA labs. That won't get any FAANG or Palantir developers out of bed in the morning unless they think being in the CIA super cool or something.

Palantir does not pay well, or at least used to not. They had a disclosed relatively low salary cap back in the day.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-Palantir-attract-talent-if-it...

Interesting, sounds like I'm mostly wrong about Palantir vs the CIA, unless the prospects of Palantir IPOing is luring.

Regardless, I'm much more familiar with FAANG compensation and my comments are still accurate for those.

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