Palantir does a good job pitching the "We only hire the best and brightest." The pitch worked on me. When I accepted the offer, the smartest person I knew from the CMU CS class of 2006 (my class) was working at Palantir, and this definitely reassured me on my decision.
Ah, bummer. I was going to apply to Palantir but I'm neither the top of my class, nor do I go to a particularly top school. May as well not bother I suppose.
Palantir does a good job pitching the "We only hire the best and brightest." The pitch worked on me. When I accepted the offer, the smartest person I knew from the CMU CS class of 2006 (my class) was working at Palantir, and this definitely reassured me on my decision.