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

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Post by nilkn »

asidiali wrote: post #316
bootlooped wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"They make you take a 2 hour live coding interview with a Triplebyte engineer, with the promise that if you pass, you won’t need to do any more technical interviews with companies through Triplebyte, only “final-round personality-style on-sites”." I was never given the impression that there would be no more technical interviews after the Triplebyte one. They were always crystal clear with me that there would be 2 ste…

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…

This email is sufficiently ambiguous that it would definitely mislead at least some of their users. Given how shady and scummy the rest of the company's practices seem to be, it's hard to believe this ambiguity isn't by design.

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

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Post by mindslight »

Jommi wrote: post #337
darekkay wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Government identification may be required and we may ask you for more information in order to verify your identify Same issue as I'm currently having with Airbnb. Though I have never ever provided any ID before, nor did I ever book anything, they asked me for an ID to prove my identity upon requesting account removal. How exactly does my ID _prove_ anything in my case (apart from the fact that I have an ID copy of…

It's pretty common actually. They will delete all your data, but that requires strong authentication, which government ID is. That's how it works with gdpr in 90% of cases.

It seems like a good idea to get a fake ID, to sign up for (free) accounts using that nym. Or I suppose if you can order fake IDs with custom nyms as needed, then you could consider that the price to delete your psuedonymous accounts.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

heliodor wrote: post #324
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…

Since account deletion is such a hurdle, edit your profile to replace your name and info with profanity and let's see how Google and the various content filters will like that once the profile goes public.

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

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Post by sensible123 »

I don't get the hate in this thread. Every time I've interacted with Ammon I've never sensed any ill intent. Dude legitimately wants to help developers get jobs.

I got the same email and just cleaned up my profile. It took at most 15 minutes. A lot less time than however long all the haters have spent commenting on the issue.

The feedback from HN could have been better. Dogpiling is a very low form of feedback.

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

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Post by anewdirection »

mchan889 wrote: post #356
jacquesm wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The whole government ID thingy is really beyond the pale. Just imagine: you never needed it to sign up in the first place. So now after proving to be not worthy of your trust, tone deaf and ethically deficient, to delete your account you need to give them even more information . This company deserves to die.

Give it time, an EU citizen who applied will eventually make GDPR complaint. At which point, it's game over.

In theory. Has any company seen the pointy end of GDPR yet?

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

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Post by treis »

icedchai wrote: post #315
DethNinja wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Triplebyte can be 100% fined by EU, there are such previous cases where HQ is out of EU but they are serving EU citizens. GDPR is very clear in wording that it doesn’t matter whether company has offices in EU or not, only thing that matters is if company is providing services to EU citizens.

Triplebyte can just forward those fines to the circular file. There is no practical method of enforcement unless they have a physical EU presence.

That's not correct. You can pursue damages outside of your jurisdiction through a process called "domestication". Generally speaking US courts will enforce judgements from other countries with a legitimate legal system.

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

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Post by ibejoeb »

sbashyal wrote: post #353
kylebarron wrote: post #6

Hard to find the opt-out button. You have to sign in, go to your "profile builder" [0], and then click the very low contrast "Visibility settings" button just below the top of your profile. [0]: https://triplebyte.com/candidates/profile_builder

Talking about dark patterns, the email was sent after 5:00pm on a Friday before the long week-end. Triplebyte team knew that their users were not going to like it and did their best to slip this through. Triplebyte went from being a respectable company helping skilled hackers by-pass white-board interviews to being a prime example of unethical tech company in one stroke.

They've been sketchy since inception. I was in a very early batch, if not the first, in 2015.

Remember that the premise was that they were non-adversarial, anti-gotcha interviews, whiteboards, nit-picky algo implementations from memory, etc. They purported to do some qualitative analysis instead.

We schedule a session and I get the confirmation: "This is a chance for you to go into more depth, and show us something that you've built. This will not be a high-pressure interview." I get at email the day before our scheduled session that says, "Remember that we're going to talk to you about a project that you've worked on," as agreed.

The following day, just a few hours before our appointment, a founder emails me saying, "Just wanted to give you a quick heads up that rather than walking through a project today, you'll be doing some programming together with an engineer."

They duped me into an adversarial interview. That kinda thing grinds my gears, but I went along with it anyway. I get the response: "We really enjoyed it and thought you did great. We'd love to talk more with you and invite you to a second technical interview."

I opted out as this continued. They acknowledged that they were changing things around without telling people, but it was just so antithetical to the mission that it became disingenuous.

When you pair that attitude of disregard with fact that they're playing sociologists, it's a bad look.

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