&quot;Good people working for bad companies have some small ability to change culture.&quot;<p>Let me stop you right there. I see where you&#x27;re going but I&#x27;m going to interject that the <i>nature</i> and <i>incentives</i> an organization matter a lot. Palantir, starting with founders &amp; investors, is set up to provide as much data analysis capability as possible to as many as possible. It&#x27;s especially going to do this for government given it&#x27;s aiming at public sector contracts and has In-Q-Tel as an investor. I can&#x27;t be sure but wouldn&#x27;t be surprised if the latter prevents them from saying no to benefiting intelligence community.<p>All together, every aspect of how this business is set up will push corporate and government surveillance. Nobody or even a small group of them will change that. It&#x27;s intrinsic to their business. So, anyone joining will be 99% contributing to that and maybe 1% making a difference... if they&#x27;re lucky.<p>So, nature of an organization and whether it allows a given change should be considered first. Then, lines of reasoning like yours follow from there. Palantir looks worst than most in this respect.