在科技行业普遍裁员的背景下，Palantir公司CEO Alex Karp在最新发布的股东信中强调了公司“纪律性”的招聘策略。他表示，Palantir在保持显著增长的同时，严格控制了人力扩张，避免了过度依赖人力而忽视软件和Ontology平台的进步。Karp认为，这种做法有助于确保平台的持续成熟，并防止因人员膨胀而掩盖平台弱点。这一信息发布之际，微软、亚马逊等科技巨头正进行大规模裁员，以优化运营和削减层级。此外，政府关停也加剧了就业市场的不确定性，最新公布的劳动力数据也未能达到预期。

🎯 **Palantir的“纪律性”招聘策略**：Palantir公司CEO Alex Karp在股东信中强调，公司在快速增长的同时，始终坚持“纪律性”的招聘实践，严格控制人力扩张。这种做法旨在确保公司不因人员的过度增加而削弱对核心软件和Ontology平台的依赖，从而促进平台的持续发展和成熟。

💡 **与科技巨头裁员形成鲜明对比**：Palantir的招聘策略与微软、亚马逊等科技巨头近期的大规模裁员形成了鲜明对比。这些公司正在通过裁员来优化运营、精简层级和削减成本，凸显了当前科技行业面临的挑战和调整。

📊 **应对不确定性的市场环境**：Palantir的策略也反映了在经济不确定性增加的背景下，企业对人力资源管理的审慎态度。政府关停导致就业数据发布延迟，而最新的August劳动力市场数据也未能达到预期，这都增加了市场的不确定性，促使企业更加重视高效和精干的运营模式。

Palantir CEO Alex Karp touted a "disciplined" hiring practice amid tech layoffs.Tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon are laying off a large number of workers.Economic uncertainty is growing with missed hiring expectations and a government shutdown.

Palantir is proud of its "disciplined" hiring practices.

The defense tech company reported earnings that beat estimates on Monday, and CEO Alex Karp touted Palantir's approach to talent recruitment in his shareholder letter.

Karp notes that while the company has "grown quite significantly," it has kept to its "constraints."

"Our head count is one manifestation of this disciplined approach," Karp wrote in the letter to shareholders. "The casual expansion of our ranks would have diminished the need to lean even more heavily on the strength of our software and the Ontology and to ensure their continued maturation.

"The alternative would have been to rely on an army of bright minds to do work that would have obscured the platform's weaknesses and ultimately hindered its development," Karp added.

The message of maintaining a lean head count arrives at a moment when other companies are pivoting to leaner workforces. There have been significant layoffs at multiple large companies, particularly in middle-management roles.

Throughout the year, Microsoft has laid off around 15,000 employees in total with multiple rounds of cuts. In October, Amazon announced it is cutting about 14,000 corporate jobs, or roughly 4% of its white-collar workforce, as part of an effort to streamline operations and reduce bureaucracy. Target, the retail giant, also announced in the same month that it would lay off 1,000 corporate employees to eliminate what the company called "overlapping work."

During Amazon's latest earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy said that the company's rapid growth in recent years created "a lot more layers" that have slowed decision-making, and that the layoff is about "culture" instead of cost cutting or AI.

To make the job market picture more unclear, the government shutdown is preventing the release of job data from September onwards. Based on the most recent available data from August, the labor market missed expectations by a wide margin.