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How does a startup out-recruit Google? Palantir cofounder Stephen Cohen explains. - garry's posterous

Interesting

9:12 PM Apr 20 2012

Wow, if I were Google I would be angry with this characterization:

"The sense you get from college recruiters is that you get to write new code. Most great hackers love to do this. But that's not what you get from a software engineering position at the tech giants. You get to maintain old code. The job should really be called software technician."

No one at Google considers themselves software technicians.

11:20 PM Apr 20 2012

Is Palantir a startup? I don't think it really has been fundamentally "startuppy" for a long time.

7:55 AM Apr 21 2012

Compared with Google, they're a startup.

Compared with startups, they're financially stable and poised to be huge.

And they're willing to recruit 21-year-olds straight out of school. Most startups I know are not willing to do that.

10:13 AM Apr 21 2012

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