Alex Karp doesn't want well-rounded people at Palantir.
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Alex Karp doesn't want well-rounded people at Palantir. He specifically looks for "malshaped high aptitude", someone whose intelligence is almost disqualifying everywhere else precisely because it's so extreme in one direction. The logic is sharp: a super high aptitude doesn't fit into a normal org. It breaks the system. So you build a company that only works with people the system already rejected. That's not a hiring philosophy. That's a deliberate filter for the kind of minds most companies accidentally screen out during the interview process. Palantir even launched a paid engineering p
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