I'm not comfortable going one way or another on Palantir, but...
> They hide their sales guys as "forward deployed engineers" and obfuscate their sales process to the point where it doesn't seem like you've ever dealt with the kind of sketchy enterprise sales goon you'd deal with from any of their competitors.
Really? I've known a couple of forward deployed engineers there, and I assure you, they're not salespeople.
> They hide their sales guys as "forward deployed engineers" and obfuscate their sales process to the point where it doesn't seem like you've ever dealt with the kind of sketchy enterprise sales goon you'd deal with from any of their competitors.
Really? I've known a couple of forward deployed engineers there, and I assure you, they're not salespeople.