Rethinking Triplebyte • Hacker News Board

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by pc86 » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

908B64B197 wrote: post #100

Terretta wrote: post #65

A benefit of Triplebyte to big enterprises not mentioned in Triplebyte’s discussion here: acting as engineering assessment proxy for engineering hiring managers stuck with pathologically risk averse enterprise HR departments. Often enterprise HR is paranoid of honestly evaluating anyone for anything, to the point that many HR teams tell one another and engineering hiring managers that it’s “illegal” to assess candida…

> If you think about joining a dev team where no one checked if any candidate could FizzBuzz, you can imagine the workplace environment that can end up with. That sounds hilarious How could a dev team not be able to write 5 lines?

You would be surprised how many people legitimately can't wrap their heads around a fizz buzz style problem, but also how many people who can yet completely freeze in an interview setting.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by bigbillheck » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:18 PM UTC

I tried out Triplebyte a few years ago on my last job search and did well enough on the quiz to bypass the technical screen.

Long story short I bear no ill-will towards the people at Triplebyte but will not attempt to use them again.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by sickygnar » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:18 PM UTC

kumarjsingh6 wrote: post #86

sickygnar wrote: post #43

I'm salty towards the platform because they rejected me a few years ago, and my ego has barred me from using them again despite their outreach. I was also very unhappy when I heard about the public profiles. I don't want people to see that I interviewed poorly, or to have any kind of public record of that. I'm a decent engineer, I swear! I had some bad luck. My nodejs build broke after a recent update on my machine,…

Your preferred language was nodejs after all

hah, fair enough.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by Leoeer » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:19 PM UTC

ammon wrote: post #34

Leoeer wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this seems like it's just diluting the signaling value of being on the platform? (and seems like it'll quickly create an upper and underclass of quiztakers vs nonquiztakers)

There's some risk of that. But I think that we can make it work. Basically, the model I have is that there are many different ways that an engineer can signal competency to a company and get a job. One way is doing well on our quizzes. But another way is having impressive experience at a good company, or a lot of open source contributions. Any one engineer might be really good, but look bad on one of these metrics (s…

Well, I hope you're right and will keep an eye out (and will regardless be Fasttrack-ing in 6 months when I'm looking for FTE work, so I'll see firsthand :p)

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by bigbillheck » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:20 PM UTC

tdeck wrote: post #102

reillyse wrote: post #40

I see a lot of people in the comments describe triplebyte as a “market leader” and discuss how good they are. I can’t believe how gullible everyone is especially on a startup forum. Let me spell it out to y’all, nobody pivots and changes their entire business model if they are crushing it. So the implication is that triplebyte are not crushing it. So, this probably has gone the same way as lots of other tech startups…

I thought this was pretty telling: > We got jobs for over 1000 engineers Given how many years Triplebyte has been running, "over 1000" seems surprisingly low. I wish them luck with their pivot.

I noticed that too, and when you combine it with "Triplebyte has hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform" it means they aren't doing great with the rate either.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by bradleyjg » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:21 PM UTC

reillyse wrote: post #40

I see a lot of people in the comments describe triplebyte as a “market leader” and discuss how good they are. I can’t believe how gullible everyone is especially on a startup forum. Let me spell it out to y’all, nobody pivots and changes their entire business model if they are crushing it. So the implication is that triplebyte are not crushing it. So, this probably has gone the same way as lots of other tech startups…

I was pretty happy with triplebyte from the hiring side. Slogging through candidates with good looking resumes that couldn’t actually program was expensive for my employer and unpleasant for me. TB took care of that first big cut down.

I guess they didn’t hit product-market fit with candidates. Two sided markets are tough.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

ammon wrote: post #56

reillyse wrote: post #40

I see a lot of people in the comments describe triplebyte as a “market leader” and discuss how good they are. I can’t believe how gullible everyone is especially on a startup forum. Let me spell it out to y’all, nobody pivots and changes their entire business model if they are crushing it. So the implication is that triplebyte are not crushing it. So, this probably has gone the same way as lots of other tech startups…

Fair comment. I certainly don't think of us as a market leader. LinkedIn is the market leader. Honestly, the last year has been pretty hard for us (COVID and the problems with our model that I talk about in the post). That said, I think a hiring process that puts engineers in control (no ghosting, get data on when a recruiter looks at your application, search ranking by whether companies lie to candidates) is somethi…

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Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by bowenyang » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:23 PM UTC

> Triplebyte has hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform, and that means we can flip the script on companies. The collective power of thousands of engineers is enough to change their incentives in a way that individual engineers cannot.

Copying this from the article. Doesn't this sound like a union? Unions generally lead to mediocrity though.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by jrochkind1 » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

> We got jobs for over 1000 engineers

Triplebyte has existed for, what, 4 years? That actually doesn't sound like very many.

> Triplebyte has hundreds of thousands of engineers on our platform

Hmm.

Re: Rethinking Triplebyte

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Post by foota » Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 8:26 PM UTC

I've always thought triplebyte was interesting, I did a first online interview with them while finishing school but basically had an offer from a large company in hand by that time and haven't looked for a new job since. I think they should try and pull people who indicate they are interested into attractive job searches, I mostly care about compensation as long as a company is decent.