Triplebyte acquired by Karat • Hacker News Board

Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat

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Post by pcthrowaway » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 8:36 PM UTC

rachofsunshine wrote: post #63

subarctic wrote: post #7

I'm guessing the pivot [0] to being more engineer-focused rather than employer-focused didn't end up working out, and they decided to sell the company and move on? [0]: https://triplebyte.com/blog/rethinking-triplebyte , discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27541676

You're essentially correct that that effort didn't work. That pivot was motivated, more or less, by the fact that we'd never found a good way to attract candidates that wasn't "dump tons of money into ads". (Even in the early days, when our branding was good, most of our candidate acquisition was from ads; only maybe 25% was word-of-mouth.) It just didn't work: senior engineers simply didn't find the things we could…

> It just didn't work: senior engineers simply didn't find the things we could offer them compelling enough.

I wonder if you would would have had better luck targeting engineers on the cusp, or people with significant experience who didn't have the confidence to identify as senior.

That was my situation when I started using Triplebyte, and the assessments did wonders for my confidence.

I did however end up taking a counter-offer from my company that promoted me to lead.

However, I raved about Triplebyte to everyone I knew (similarly unconfident engineers considering a job change), and would have loved to continue doing so, as well as using it on my next job search.

I'm really sad to hear you couldn't make it work, it was excellent from the candidate side of things.

Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat

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Post by rachofsunshine » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 8:57 PM UTC

bigbillheck wrote: post #115

acheron wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, really? I thought it sounded interesting years ago and checked them out. I then read that it was for jobs/people in San Francisco only, and my reaction was, as the kids say, "lmao". Never thought about them again. Had no idea they moved on to allowing places that were potentially elsewhere and even in different hemispheres.

In fairness I could be mis-remembering the details, but it was something about making apps for Africa; I thought they were based somewhere there but it's been a couple years.

We had a couple startups in Nigeria. Was never a major hub for us, but we always had a handful of folks in Lagos.

Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat

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Post by coward123 » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 10:10 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #66

coward123 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience was the same as tedvim above - it was utterly dehumanizing and there's no way I want that either for myself or for the people I hire. The interviewers were smug little shits who didn't take feedback to ask questions relevant to the position. Further - you guys lurk all over HN commenting like this every time there's an interview thread. It's submarining and it's gross.

Presumably it depends on the interviewer. And tbf it seems like warent is the only person here defending them. Still I don't know if I would trust hiring to unknown potentially awful interviewers.

Their people pop up in every hiring thread on HN, it isn't just warent and it isn't the first time.

Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat

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Post by egberts1 » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:50 PM UTC

Triplebyte is extremely hostile to disabled people who are experts in their field.

After aceing their Linux kernel screening test in 2019, their model of “we will call you, you cannot contact us” have made it nearly impossible to work out physical scheduling for an interpreter to sit alongside the conversation.

After all, one does not need a voice to do professional “bit arrangements”. We all have IM, texting, email, and fancy transcribing machines.

There are many forms of vocal disabilities.

Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat

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Post by neilv » Thu, Mar 23, 2023, 5:26 AM UTC

baron816 wrote: post #89

I did a coding bootcamp in 2014, and couldn’t get a job afterwards. I spent the next three years trying to break into tech. I had tried starting a startup, failed at that, interviewed at a handful of companies, failed those too. At one point, I was literally begging startups to let me work for them for free. Nothing. I finally managed to get into Triplebyte’s program. I did a phone interview with them, failed it, the…

Kudos. It's great to hear grit and perseverance working out in the end.

Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat

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Post by phendrenad2 » Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 1:09 AM UTC

So what is happening to TripleByte? The website says "While Triplebyte is saying goodbye…the mission to transform technical hiring continues at Karat". So it seems like Karat is just squashing a competitor to their own business model, and doesn't intend to integrate triplebyte's features into Karat.