Data engineers on Reddit express strong negative sentiment towards Palantir's Foundry platform, describing it as a proprietary "walled garden" that builds non-transferable skills and can lead to...

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    "summary": "Data engineers on Reddit express strong negative sentiment towards Palantir's Foundry platform, describing it as a proprietary \"walled garden\" that builds non-transferable skills and can lead to career vendor lock-in.",
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        "author": "T_house92",
        "excerpt": "Probably a hot take but I wouldn’t swap to a foundry shop for any amount of money. If I can get 210 somewhere then I can land another offer that doesn’t use palantir for a similar amount, even if it’s a little less.",
        "posted_at": "2026-09-27T13:49:46.000Z",
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        "author": "Brief-Knowledge-629",
        "excerpt": "Foundry sucks but how much it sucks is mostly dependent on the culture of the company that uses it. It's probably like a 5.5/10 as far as tooling goes, which is fine, but the kinds of companies that pick it as a tool are going to make it worse. Understand that you probably aren't going to get that much done but your job will be pretty secure.\n\n That being said, 50k is a lot of money and 150k to 21",
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        "excerpt": "Fuck palantir.",
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        "author": "sitchmellers",
        "excerpt": "??? Go take the 50k raise why are you asking us get that bread",
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        "excerpt": "50k is no joke but palantir foundry is a walled garden, you'll be learning their weird ontology stuff instead of anything useful long term\n\n the remote vs in person part alone would give me pause, that's a lifestyle hit, but if you're just trying to stack cash for a couple years and bail it's probably fine",
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        "author": "minormisgnomer",
        "excerpt": "All the tools are the same at the end of the day, take the money.\n\n If you’re a good DE you’ll be able to swap to any other tool and now you’ve got another one under your belt",
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        "author": "koteikin",
        "excerpt": "I would never work for Palantir or want my name associated with their company. Read about their CEO and all the shady projects they love to participate. And their founder giving anti-Christ secret lections. Besides you can get the same money elsewhere and not locked in proprietary tech.",
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        "author": "Hour-Measurement-835",
        "excerpt": "Ask if that team writes PySpark in Code Repositories or builds in Pipeline Builder. Twenty years on NetSuite and the only part I'd carry to another stack is the SQL and scripts, none of the clicking.",
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      "[comment u/Correct-Sugar6769] 50k is no joke but palantir foundry is a walled garden, you'll be learning their weird ontology stuff instead of anything useful long term",
      "[comment u/ironmagnesiumzinc] I would keep looking. Once you’re experienced in foundry it’s easy to get locked in. I have a friend who is complaining about that right now"
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    "post_text": "Let’s say you had this offer on the table:\n\nOffer: $210,000 annually for a palantir foundry de role, in person\n\nCurrent: $160,000 for Python-heavy work with mostly on-prem sql servers, mostly remote, salary flat for 2 years\n\nI’ve seen nothing but bad things about foundry as a tool. But I’m wondering if it’s bad enough to forgo a big raise in a HCOL area. For the folks that worked with foundry and went back to a more traditional data stack: were the foundry skills transferable or were they just lost years skill-wise? Realistically, it wouldn’t be a permanent career move, but a stint.\n\nEdit for clarity: job is not with palantir, it’s a different company using foundry",
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