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November 3, 2026

'Get someone from Palantir': is your FDE hiring strategy set up for success?

Get someone from Palantir: is your FDE hiring strategy up for success? Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE) is still a relatively new role for most companies. Palantir pioneered it, and now lots of companies are hiring for it. Most of the companies hiring for FDEs today don't yet have a mature enough environment to assess FDEs. So, the brief we hear most is "Get me someone from Palantir." In effect, they're outsourcing the assessment to Palantir. It's an understandable shortcut. But is it a strategy? Here's what we're seeing.

11.5.26

Why CTOs and Heads of Engineering are going back to hands-on

Something has shifted in the engineering leadership market this year: CTOs and Heads of Engineering are choosing to go back to hands-on roles, and companies are welcoming them.

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