Reddit post says a Palantir Foundry rollout took 15 months and delivered no ROI
thedealdirector · x · 2026-07-24
- A Reddit post featured in the image claims a company’s Palantir Foundry rollout took 15 months instead of the originally estimated 4 months and required extra contractors.
- The author says Palantir sales engineers sold a “10x savings” story, but the project became more expensive through additional contracts, outside agencies, and slow delivery.
- The criticism centers on Palantir FDEs and engineers allegedly shipping hardcoded, brittle logic, while the company delivered 0 ROI to date and the CEO blamed the internal IT team for delays.
- Reply comments echo the complaint, describing FDEs as essentially sales engineers who can increase billable hours and leave customers with hard-to-maintain implementations.
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