My random Triplebyte anecdote is that I did good on the quizzes and gave a solid interview, but they declined to represent me. They were transparent about their reasoning: they saw me as somewhat of a specialist in parsing, and they didn't know how to place someone with that peculiar skillset.
Which turned out fine. I found a job where my pre-computer programming work experience was relevant, and here a couple jobs later I'm working heavily with and on parsers.
So. Count me as one engineer they rejected who doesn't hold that against them.
I'm pessimistic about this pivot though, for a couple reasons. One, it smells desperate. Recruiting is sales, and in sales, desperation is the kiss of death. I can't read that blog post without coming away with the strong sense that if this doesn't work, it's over for them. If I can see it, anyone can see it.
Two, companies aren't going to want to work with a firm that's allowing engineers to collect detailed information on douchey behaviour that the company might engage in. Does Triplebyte have the leverage and moxie to make them engage anyway? Probably not, see point one.
I wish them well, because recruiting is awful, interviewing is broken, and engineers deserve to have a better time of it given how demand-driven the market is, and likely will remain for quite some time.
Can't help thinking they'll be writing about their incredible journey within a year or two.
> Two, companies aren't going to want to work with a firm that's allowing engineers to collect detailed information on douchey behaviour that the company might engage in.
On the other hand, if a company does not engage in douchey behaviour, then using Triplebyte could be a way to signal that.
This fails a bit if companies can be credibly accused of douchey behaviour when they haven't been engaged in it. I don't know what Triplebyte's plan is here.
> Does Triplebyte have the leverage and moxie to make them engage anyway? Probably not, see point one.
Indeed. They labour the point that programmers have the upper hand in hiring, but that doesn't translate to Triplebyte having the upper hand!
Same thinking here. Can’t bite the hand that feeds. The thing is you have to chose a camp these days, it seems. Either the corp or the devs. If choosing devs, i think the biz model would work if it would be a meritocratic limited partnership that actually owns the new TB. As such the interviewer has skin in the game. Maybe like an Order? Or a League? The mission statement is not a match right now.
What companies want from us, more than anything else, is volume. They want to find as many engineers as possible and make hires. That's the thrust of the economic argument we're trying to make here: our incentives even with companies as our paying clients are to create an engineer-friendly platform.
Which turned out fine. I found a job where my pre-computer programming work experience was relevant, and here a couple jobs later I'm working heavily with and on parsers.
So. Count me as one engineer they rejected who doesn't hold that against them.
I'm pessimistic about this pivot though, for a couple reasons. One, it smells desperate. Recruiting is sales, and in sales, desperation is the kiss of death. I can't read that blog post without coming away with the strong sense that if this doesn't work, it's over for them. If I can see it, anyone can see it.
Two, companies aren't going to want to work with a firm that's allowing engineers to collect detailed information on douchey behaviour that the company might engage in. Does Triplebyte have the leverage and moxie to make them engage anyway? Probably not, see point one.
I wish them well, because recruiting is awful, interviewing is broken, and engineers deserve to have a better time of it given how demand-driven the market is, and likely will remain for quite some time.
Can't help thinking they'll be writing about their incredible journey within a year or two.