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The setup for this - the clause saying that if you didn't sign an exit agreement within sixty days the company would reclaim your equity - was in the equity plan and grant document…

Hey! I'm the article author, and I didn't write about what the Media Lab was thinking to give them "cover". As I put it in the article, the Media Lab's actions were so horrific tha…

Hey HN, I'm the author of this article (also the precursor predicting this, which was on the front page yesterday). My impression is that the best place to look for an explanation …

So the thing is, I think arrogance is typically reflected in actual deficiencies in interview performance. If it isn't - if it's just a vibe that the interviewer got with no concre…

Even a year later, you should definitely have had the chance to try again if you'd like. I can reactivate your account; email me at kelsey@triplebyte.com

We don't have the project track anymore, because most candidates weren't willing to do it and it wasn't successfully predicting hires. (There's actually a blog post about this upco…

For arrogant, I'd try to make the feedback as concrete and specific as possible - "sometimes you gave confidently wrong answers. If you're guessing, it's better to tell your interv…

Shoot me an email (kelsey@triplebyte.com) and I'll reset your account.

All the ways I discussed in the article - more nuanced, more thorough, more detailed, more focused on constructive advice you can take to your next interview. Plus, we've just impr…

To be clear, we don't ask candidates 'what is a relational database', and I'm totally in agreement that that's a weak interview question.

I don't conduct the interviews, you're right that that'd be impossible. I take the notes from our interviewers and turn them into feedback emails.

Yeah, another disadvantage of feedback is that some people really resent suggestions on how to improve - they can come across as condescending. I definitely would rather get feedba…

I did a degree in symbolic systems (CS + philosophy + linguistics; I have some CS background but less than I'd have gotten from a CS degree), I did one software internship, and Tri…

That sounds like a feedback email from a couple years ago - am I right about that? We've definitely gotten better at this over time.

We have a blog post with some recommendations based on what we've seen at Triplebyte: https://triplebyte.com/blog/how-to-pass-a-programming-interv... I think it's a pretty good sta…

My understanding is that as long as you're not discriminating against candidates on the basis of race, gender or some other protected category membership, and as long as your feedb…

I get why companies don't do honest rejection letters, but this there's no excuse for whatsoever.

Article author - I'm on the writing team at Triplebyte. Most of what we do is summarize candidates' technical performance for their introduction to companies, but we also send feed…

No engineer taking a role like this is going to expect an onboarding process. Many of them are specifically drawn by the idea they'll get to sit down and solve a problem on day 1.

> "opponents have argued that prisoners do need real wages to be able to buy basic necessities other than food in the prisons" This seems like a problem even if prisoner wages are …

After our two-hour interview everyone should get a detailed feedback email - I write them. If you did our two-hour interview and didn't get detailed feedback, let me know and I'll …