Davos 2023: Palantir CEO predicts hiring while preparing for economic slowdown


FILE PHOTO Alex Karp CEO of Palantir Technologies poses beside the companys logo ahead of an interview with Reuters in the Alpine resort of Davos Switzerland May 23 2022. Picture taken May 23 2022. REUTERSArnd Wiegmann

FILE PHOTO: Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies poses beside the company's logo ahead of an interview with Reuters in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland May 23, 2022. Picture taken May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Palantir Technologies Inc is still looking to grow its headcount even as it scrutinizes its spending and confronts economic uncertainty, its chief executive told Reuters.

The U.S. software company in 2023 expects to add a couple hundred people to its roughly 3,500 staff, in line with prior years of expansion just as peers in the technology industry are firing people, CEO Alex Karp said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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