I'm not surprised Triplebyte isn't standing on its own. I set up identical profiles and passed all the relevant quizzes at Triplebyte, Hired, and LinkedIn (all 3 offer timed, multiple choice question tests with limited retries), but only LinkedIn was able to match me with opportunities willing to pay what I was asking. Triplebyte and Hired both let you set a floor salary, but have no ability to set a floor total comp…
Curious... I've been using LinkedIn for a job search and am unfamiliar with the questions to which you refer. How can I find and pass this test?
Triplebyte acquired by Karat
31–40 of 126 posts
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#32I hope all of these interview assessment companies go out of business. They don't produce quality candidates, and they're dehumanizing for the folks that have to use them.
I’ve only been interviewed through Karat once, but it was a positive experience. It was a coding screen round. The interviewer was personable and fun to talk to, which made the whole process more pleasant. He was skilled at listening and asking the right questions to gauge where I was at throughout the conversation. He also transitioned smoothly into follow-up questions, and I got the impression overall that there wa…
> a company can use the same screening process for different teams - it made a lot of sense to me that a task like that could be outsourced
It actually makes a lot of sense to do it this way on both ends.
You know the interviewer is going to be a good interviewer who knows what they are doing & how to judge you. The interviewer can be completely independent from the decision without having bias or judgement attached to where the candidate ends up.
I've certainly had interviews where I knew I was doomed from the second I walked in the door because the interviewer was in a bad mood, they didn't enunciate clearly, just a bad vibe, whatever. That sucks as a candidate. This situation would make a fairly demeaning process slightly better if done well.
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#33[deleted]
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#34I remember when Triplebyte had a blog post and/or job ad every other day on Hacker News, and a bazillion physical ads in San Francisco. It's surprising how quickly after the public-profile-incident ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037 ) they fell off the radar.
They completely destroyed the value of their brand with that. It was crazy. I really liked the concept of Triplebyte, even though I never found a job through them. I would get requests from reputable companies occassionally. After that incident, I never got anything again. I would have considered using Triplebyte from the employer side prior to that, but not after. What a disgrace.
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I absolutely did review the interview, that was the whole point. I just wasn't willing to risk sending a potential candidate through a pipeline I myself hadn't gone through. I'm happy I caught the problems in advance myself, rather than subjecting someone I potentially wanted to hire to a useless interview. I do want to stress the useless part here too- even with the notes of how the interview went I wouldn't be able…
In summary, the beginning of a brand new business relationship, you demoed a single, first version of your custom purchase, you understood that it needed tuning, and then proceeded to immediately cut them without providing further direction. (EDIT: Note that I previously contracted with Karat and feel loyalty to them, but have no formal association or stake in them, nor do I represent them.)
You should probably disclose that you are a Senior Interviewer at Karat
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
In summary, the beginning of a brand new business relationship, you demoed a single, first version of your custom purchase, you understood that it needed tuning, and then proceeded to immediately cut them without providing further direction. (EDIT: Note that I previously contracted with Karat and feel loyalty to them, but have no formal association or stake in them, nor do I represent them.)
To be clear, we gave a ton of feedback and direction before the demo. All of that was completely ignored. If it was a problem of just tweaking things or making changes then I would have done that, but the fact is that they completely ignored all of the input we had already given. I'm curious why you're so intense about this- do you have some sort of stake in karet?
They worked for Karat, according to their comment history. So yes.
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#37I remember when Triplebyte had a blog post and/or job ad every other day on Hacker News, and a bazillion physical ads in San Francisco. It's surprising how quickly after the public-profile-incident ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279837 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23303037 ) they fell off the radar.
But has anyone learned the lesson? I'm sure the founders will go their merry way to another plum position and continue thriving on VC Twitter.
In the past 10 year being unethical wasn't considered immoral by a lot of such startups. I remember the intern incident at Repl.it or how AirBnB destroyed the rental market in certain geographies or the whole Uber incidents.
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
In summary, the beginning of a brand new business relationship, you demoed a single, first version of your custom purchase, you understood that it needed tuning, and then proceeded to immediately cut them without providing further direction. (EDIT: Note that I previously contracted with Karat and feel loyalty to them, but have no formal association or stake in them, nor do I represent them.)
To be clear, we gave a ton of feedback and direction before the demo. All of that was completely ignored. If it was a problem of just tweaking things or making changes then I would have done that, but the fact is that they completely ignored all of the input we had already given. I'm curious why you're so intense about this- do you have some sort of stake in karet?
[flagged]
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#39Karat embodies everything wrong with the tech industry, and Triplebyte wasn't much better. I've interviewed - and hired - hundreds of people in my career. This robotic approach with a focus on either standardized test type material and/or the leetcode interviews where how we interview doesn't match the work itself - it's just all so broken. I don't know the fix, but I know this isn't it.
Re: Triplebyte acquired by Karat
#40I hope all of these interview assessment companies go out of business. They don't produce quality candidates, and they're dehumanizing for the folks that have to use them.
Speaking as an hiring manager: Interviewing and finding the right talent is hard and there will always be people swayed by these salesmen selling a quick solution to tired companies.
The lucrative cottage industry of interview assessments won't be going down so soon as long as there are perverse incentives and gatekeeping in place.