Hi, I am Sesan Takuro, and I was a
software engineer in summer 2022.
I'm Sanchith and I was a
forward-deployed software engineer intern the summer of
'22.
I am Vasu and I was a software
engineering intern in the summer of
2022.
My name is Jason and I was a software
engineer intern in summer 2022.
My name is Angelina and I was a dev
intern at Palantir in the summer of
2022.
If I could use one word to describe the Palantir internship experience, I
would definitely say energizing, and that's for
three reasons.
The learning, the people, and the impact.
So as for learning I feel like this
summer, I was always learning something
new. I like, never got bored this
summer. And, you know, on one spectrum
that was learning to work with Palantir
Foundry in depth.
This is just how the backend interacts
with the front end, data pipelining,
Foundry tools,
in another spectrum specifically as a
delta, you have to be able to work with more than just the product, you have to
work with the customer as well — so learning how to iterate
with the customer in a professional
manner to get the product that they
needed was super fulfilling.
I think it grew more from my summer
at Palantir than I have it any other
point in my life.
Just because from the start I was
trusted with really impactful work
that had a lot of meaning to a lot of
people or the client or team.
It was really cool to be
given this type of initiative and
to be told that my opinions, my ideas,
the things I bring to the table all
really mattered. And they believed in
me.
How did Palantir support my growth this summer? When I
went to Palantir, I joined one of the
front end teams as an intern,
and while I don't as much enjoy
the CSS part of the role, I do
enjoy thinking about how different
components connect and how to send data
between different parts of the software
stack. And I talked with my
team lead pretty early on about the
sort of projects I like to work on, my
algorithmic background — I was
an algorithms TA for a little bit —
and the sort of challenges I like
to think about.
And given this information
they did a really good job of thinking
about how to structure projects
throughout the summer such that I would
be interested and have a fun time with
them.
The highlight of my internship
experience would have to be the people
I have met and the friends I've been
able to make over the course of my
internship.
Throughout the period of my internship,
I was privileged to be able to meet
various people from different
backgrounds with different points of
view and ideologies, and
that would have to be the highlight of
my internship experience.
The highlight of my internship
experience was playing
football with other engineers weekly
and a technical challenge I worked
through was
finding out how a system works from
the bottom up so that I can more easily
find out where an issue is coming from.
I think what makes the Palantir
internship so unique and special
is how personalized it is to
each person's interests and goals.
Palantir really does a good job of
caring about people on an individual
level and making sure that they are
given the resources as well
as projects that kind of maximize
their potential and also the passions
that they've indicated.
And I think this is a really amazing
thing because you get to see
individuals really develop their
passions and kind of find what they're
interested in and explore a
lot of different areas without a lot
of limitation and with a lot of
flexibility.
I made the really easy decision to
return to Palantir full time because
there's just so much more that I want
to learn and so much more that I want
to contribute.
And I know it's possible with this
company, there's just endless
opportunity and ability to
contribute and to make your voice heard
and to really make cool things
for the future.