Why Triplebyte Failed
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Why Triplebyte Failed
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#2TL;DR: Publicly facing profiles, with an opt-out instead of an opt-in, was a footgun moment.
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#3It's interesting to see how much "standardized cross-company interview for software eng" has been consistently a cursed problem in the industry.
Unlike airline pilots (or I'm certain many other professions), every company in the valley insists on re-interviewing a candidate in their own custom and unique way, instead of trusting some sort of an industry-wide certificate only achievable through a standardized test. Wonder if this will ever be solved.
I remember way back in the day where it felt like Triplebyte might finally figure that one out, but it unfortunately never happened.
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#4I did the Triplebyte candidate process back in 2019 and overall it was a pleasant experience. Shame they didn't make it.
Re: Why Triplebyte Failed
#5It's interesting to see how much "standardized cross-company interview for software eng" has been consistently a cursed problem in the industry. Unlike airline pilots (or I'm certain many other professions), every company in the valley insists on re-interviewing a candidate in their own custom and unique way, instead of trusting some sort of an industry-wide certificate only achievable through a standardized test. Wo…
Part of me wonders if the recruiting itself is over-engineered anyway. I mean, imagine if you just asked:
Implement Bubble Sort, in 2 Languages of your choice, with multithreading or other language-provided parallelism, with the correct number of parallel threads to be most algorithmically efficient
Would that really not weed out a lot of people? I think it would. I know the above algorithm is hardly production-ready, but the requirements are easy to understand. (It's also a bit of a trick question - there is no optimal algorithmically efficient number of threads in a bubble sort, only the number of CPU cores in the system.)
Re: Why Triplebyte Failed
#6It's interesting to see how much "standardized cross-company interview for software eng" has been consistently a cursed problem in the industry. Unlike airline pilots (or I'm certain many other professions), every company in the valley insists on re-interviewing a candidate in their own custom and unique way, instead of trusting some sort of an industry-wide certificate only achievable through a standardized test. Wo…
It's because companies don't want capable, experienced or well-equipped. They want genius and it is really hard to test for genius. Granted, almost nobody that gets through any process is an actual genius....
Re: Why Triplebyte Failed
#7It's interesting to see how much "standardized cross-company interview for software eng" has been consistently a cursed problem in the industry. Unlike airline pilots (or I'm certain many other professions), every company in the valley insists on re-interviewing a candidate in their own custom and unique way, instead of trusting some sort of an industry-wide certificate only achievable through a standardized test. Wo…
A standardized test exists for lawyers (two, if you count the LSATs) but law firms still interview potential hires.
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#8I did the Triplebyte candidate process back in 2019 and overall it was a pleasant experience. Shame they didn't make it.
I went through the process and liked it too. The engineer made critiques about my code that I found silly though, which really makes me question if I would really trust a candidate approved by them.
Re: Why Triplebyte Failed
#9It's interesting to see how much "standardized cross-company interview for software eng" has been consistently a cursed problem in the industry. Unlike airline pilots (or I'm certain many other professions), every company in the valley insists on re-interviewing a candidate in their own custom and unique way, instead of trusting some sort of an industry-wide certificate only achievable through a standardized test. Wo…
It's because companies don't want capable, experienced or well-equipped. They want genius and it is really hard to test for genius. Granted, almost nobody that gets through any process is an actual genius....
It's because you have to go through a lengthy process to become a pilot - and tech companies want to be able to hire anyone regardless of training.
Combine that with the fact that the upper bound on pay for SWEs is considerably higher than pilots...
Re: Why Triplebyte Failed
#10TL;DR: Publicly facing profiles, with an opt-out instead of an opt-in, was a footgun moment.
Yup. Easy to destroy trust.