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Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by asidiali »

kyleashipley wrote: post #321
asidiali wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing! They told me there would be a 30m pitch call followed by an all day of on-sites that were explicitly not whiteboarding sessions or technical assessments . Also, I still did have several back and forth calls with companies I was connected with - it wasn’t just the one half-hour call and then on-sites. Here’s the exact email from TripleByte upon passing the quiz: “ Here's how it works: 1. We'll show…

Most companies define their process as something like Phone Screen (recruiter) -> Technical Screen (engineer via phone or take-home project) -> On-Site (mix of culture + tech). Triplebyte helps you skip those first two steps. I agree that the terminology could be more clear, but it seems like they borrowed existing lingo from recruiters here.

Thanks for your point. That’s fair, it’s not a straight lie - they are using the ambiguity to their advantage. That is still dishonest IMO.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by SilasX »

wolfgang42 wrote: post #142
redis_mlc wrote: post #135

> Your profile is about to become public That's pretty horrible. But I have to ask ... since my understanding is that hiring companies make you redo the technical interviews again, what is the point of doing the Triplebyte interview process at all? Also related, there was a startup that was scraping your Linkedin status and sending that to employers who subscribed, effectively doing the same thing Triplebyte is plann…

The hiring company has to follow a standardized flow for any candidates they get through Triplebyte. Triplebyte does their own evaluation and reports the results, and then each hiring company is only allowed to do a short non-technical[1] phone screen plus a single day of onsite interviews before either rejecting the candidate or extending an offer. [1] and they enforce this—they specifically ask the candidate to rep…

"Only" a single day of onsite (presumably technical) interviews? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of Triplebyte, which is to "O(1)" your job search, i.e. avoid a long interview process with each company?

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by nabilhat »

Assume for a moment I'm a bad-faith, nosy employer who reads HN on a Saturday morning. All it takes for me to match up my little stack of current employee's resumes is a person's city of residence, skills, and employment dates. If I'm that kind of employer, that's enough to raise my red flags. If prior employers are named outright, that's a 100% ID. If employment dates are paired with employment location, that's a 100% ID.

I've known employers like this. I've worked for employers like this. Employers are already monitoring social media. Third party services are paid by employers to monitor for staff that might be looking at other jobs. Recruiters make it their mission to know who's looking and what employers are likely to need their services in the near future. This is much of why trust and discretion is the most important asset on both sides of hiring related activities.

Triplebyte burning down their reputation as a recruitment avenue is one thing. Locking job searchers into reputation and livelihood risks inside Triplebyte's own reputation dumpster fire, on the friday before a holiday weekend, during historic unemployment levels, in the middle of a fucking pandemic, is unforgivable. The CEO showing up in person with hamfisted gaslighting (seriously?) in the middle of this self made disaster makes me hope those comments don't get flagged out of future HN search results.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by [deleted] »

ammon wrote: post #73
ganstyles wrote: post #24

This is horrible, what a breach of trust. I used TB to stealthily interview for jobs, had a good experience. Recommended them to others. Now I see that if I hadn't seen this post, I wouldn't have known about this and those details would have been public, which had the potential to seriously undermine me at my current position. I'll opt out tomorrow, but according to others it sounds like the visibility link was somew…

Your Triplebyte profile will NOT contain any data/details about you or your job search that will undermine you at your current employer. We should have included a screenshot and more details in the email. I'll talk to my team about following up with more details tomorrow. We are talking about a lightweight profile, like your Stack Overflow or HN profile, to provide us the canvas to release badges. That's it.

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Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by asidiali »

bootlooped wrote: post #335
asidiali wrote: post #316

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing! They told me there would be a 30m pitch call followed by an all day of on-sites that were explicitly not whiteboarding sessions or technical assessments . Also, I still did have several back and forth calls with companies I was connected with - it wasn’t just the one half-hour call and then on-sites. Here’s the exact email from TripleByte upon passing the quiz: “ Here's how it works: 1. We'll show…

Now that I read what you quoted it does sound ambiguous. It doesn't explicitly say that the final interview is non-technical, but "skip technical screening" could be interpreted as implying that.

I guess they aren’t straight lying about how many interviews you’ll have, but to me riding that line of ambiguity with no course of action or any metric around what a technical screening actually is presented to the interviewee, it’s just as dishonest of an approach in my opinion.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by tfehring »

pmiller2 wrote: post #198
travisjungroth wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My point is that just having the profile is data. He can’t predict what impact making this data public will have.

Companies that are worth a shit don't retaliate against people for looking at other opportunities. That's precisely why your Tinder example is not just off base, it's wrong. Another way to look at it: either you're a replaceable cog, or you're essential to running the business. If you're essential, they're going to do whatever they can to keep you. If you're replaceable, they probably don't care that much whether you…

Being fired because you're perceived to be looking for other jobs probably isn't a realistic concern. But being passed up for promotions or missing out on desirable opportunities because you're perceived to be looking for other jobs is a very real possibility, even if you're not easily replaceable.

The Tinder analogy is imperfect because of that, but it's still a good illustration of how just the existence of a profile can destroy your plausible deniability.

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by kerkeslager »

ammon wrote: post #12
haram_masala wrote: post #5

This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.

Really sorry that you think this is awful. Certainly do opt-out. I think that taking on LinkedIn and creating a better engineering resume is a good thing to do. I can assure you that the Friday announcement is a result of our team grinding to hit a planned release week, not anything other than that (I would have loved to get this out earlier in the week)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSh0wHBGySg&t=1m16s

Re: Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public

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Post by [deleted] »

jdxcode wrote: post #306
aidos wrote: post #204

Wow. Thanks for this. I ignored the email because Triplebyte just feels a bit spammy to me now so I mentally block it out. Have logged in to stop this from happening and currently apparently I'm "Open to discussing new opportunities", which is news to me. On trying to change it to "Not interested in any new opportunities" there's a dropdown that says "I’d be open to new opportunities in:" and most you can set it to i…

that dropdown is super annoying: https://imgur.com/a/iUFg3cn Also, I clicked that "visibility hidden" and got this email: "Hey Jeff, You’re no longer letting companies know that you’re open to discussing new opportunities. Your profile will be hidden from employers for the next 24 months. You can change your job search status and make your profile visible again, whenever you feel ready explore new opportunities." ( h…

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