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Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham

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Re: Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham

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Post by echevil »

austincheney wrote: post #72

> We started Triplebyte because we were frustrated by the noise present in every step of the hiring process. This is largely just a software/technology problem. In all other professional industries there are means to validate a candidate's competency before they are allowed to interview for a position: licensing, required internships, legal certifications/authorizations, authorized relationships, and so forth. Techno…

On the contrary, I think software/technology is a field where objective assessment of candidate's competency is relatively easy, and the professions requiring accreditation/licensing are relatively rare.

Do you think requiring those credentials would benefit software industry as well? Is that enough for top companies to base their hiring decisions on?

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Post by lr4444lr »

Cyph0n wrote: post #115
austincheney wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They are often weak signals of actual competence I disagree. They are weak at separating the top 10% from the rest of the qualified people, but they are excellent at removing the people who have no business being there in the first place. The first two that comes to the minds of most people are law and medical licenses. These licenses don't exist as a job qualifier. They exist as a legal qualifier. That means a gro…

Law and medicine are not relevant examples at all. In both cases, licensing did not arise because of hiring issues, but rather because both law and medicine directly involve human lives and livelihoods. Any field where this can be the case on a day-to-day basis ends up having strict licensing and/or training requirements. Examples include civil engineers, pilots, soldiers, sea captains, heavy machinery operators, and…

The guys who work at Lockheed Martin programming vehicular data sensors, or who work for medical device manufacturers on MRI machine interfaces - they aren't directly involved in human lives and livelihoods? What about the massive security failures at Equifax? That's not putting people at risk?

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Post by nikanj »

marcell wrote: post #113
amorphid wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really easy to game Triplebyte. It's probably really easy to game all the online interview platforms. May be it's hard to game Interviewing.io, because they have you chat w/ an actual person.

For Triplebyte they have a two hour interview with a real engineer who has passed their own interview. Even if you cheat on the live interview, you still have to do an on-site at the company that might hire you, so it’s not a huge benefit to cheat.

Waste time doing an online test, for an opportunity to waste time with a faux interview, for the opportunity to..have an interview at $bigcorp.

What’s the TripleByte value add here, why should I spend time with them? Why not send my CV to $bigcorp directly?

Re: Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham

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Post by opportune »

thecombjelly wrote: post #87
koopuluri wrote: post #83

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> And what about disabilities? How does your algorithm handle those? Racial bias? So many unanswerable questions. Couldn't algorithms reduce racial bias by focusing on evaluating candidates independent of their race, and other personal attributes?

They could but if part of the process is proprietary or hidden how can you know what it is doing?

Or it could be implemented naively e.g. as a simple input feature in a DNN model

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Post by nrb »

nikanj wrote: post #124
marcell wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Triplebyte they have a two hour interview with a real engineer who has passed their own interview. Even if you cheat on the live interview, you still have to do an on-site at the company that might hire you, so it’s not a huge benefit to cheat.

Waste time doing an online test, for an opportunity to waste time with a faux interview, for the opportunity to..have an interview at $bigcorp. What’s the TripleByte value add here, why should I spend time with them? Why not send my CV to $bigcorp directly?

1. If you are out of town and trying to relocate to SF, they handle all the scheduling, travel, lodging, and transportation for you.

2. Skips past the resume filter, HR phone screen, and technical phone screen. After you've gone through the TripleByte technical interview, you skip directly to on-site final interviews at the companies. If your resume is non-traditional (self taught, bootcamp, etc) this is pretty significant.

Re: Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham

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Post by beachy »

austincheney wrote: post #72

> We started Triplebyte because we were frustrated by the noise present in every step of the hiring process. This is largely just a software/technology problem. In all other professional industries there are means to validate a candidate's competency before they are allowed to interview for a position: licensing, required internships, legal certifications/authorizations, authorized relationships, and so forth. Techno…

I'd say its the other way around.

Its far easier to do online screening for software developers than it is for the softer skills - sales, marketing, etc.

Re: Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham

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Post by mattm »

jensvdh wrote: post #81
shreyanshd wrote: post #23

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Hey Harj, congrats! Any plans to launch TripleByte in India, or for engineers from India who want to interview with Bay Area companies?

Due to visa constraints there literally is no point in doing this.

Yeah I believe Triplebyte will only accept candidates from countries that have an easy way to get a work visa in the US - Canada, Mexico, Australia and Singapore (I think). (I'm Canadian and am working at my current company through Triplebyte)

Re: Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham

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Post by Cyph0n »

lr4444lr wrote: post #122
Cyph0n wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Law and medicine are not relevant examples at all. In both cases, licensing did not arise because of hiring issues, but rather because both law and medicine directly involve human lives and livelihoods. Any field where this can be the case on a day-to-day basis ends up having strict licensing and/or training requirements. Examples include civil engineers, pilots, soldiers, sea captains, heavy machinery operators, and…

The guys who work at Lockheed Martin programming vehicular data sensors, or who work for medical device manufacturers on MRI machine interfaces - they aren't directly involved in human lives and livelihoods? What about the massive security failures at Equifax? That's not putting people at risk?

Once again, these kinds of industries adapt to the kind of work they do. There are numerous bureaucratic and access-control procedures in place at defense contractors. The FDA has a ton of requirements for anyone working on medical devices.

Equifax was a monumental shitshow. I think SSNs are also a shitshow, but I digress.

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