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gcampos | 3 years ago

My impression is that they are still around, but they failed to deliver the "recruiting revolution" and I think the reasons are:

- The screening had a lot of false negatives. "I got rejected by Triplebyte, but got a FAANG offer" is quite common.

- Most companies used Triplebyte not as an interview replacement, but as an additional screening process, which means that as a candidate, you don't have any real incentive to use them.

The only real use case I heard recently about Triplebyte is to send candidate who normally you wouldn't even screen, so if they pass Triplebyte process, you know that you should consider the candidate, but if they fail is fine because you would have passed them anyways

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site-packages1|3 years ago

"Most companies used Triplebyte not as an interview replacement, but as an additional screening process, which means that as a candidate, you don't have any real incentive to use them."

I used them many years ago, this was my impression. When I got to company "on sites" they were just full-blown interview loops. I could have just applied to the companies directly.

teaearlgraycold|3 years ago

I had a good experience with them as a new grad. A couple hours with TripleByte got me a free plane ticket to Silicon Valley, a hotel room, free Uber rides around the bay, and 5 on site interviews back-to-back. The product was an amazing deal for candidates. I had to do very little work and it got my foot in the door. 4 years later and I now work for Google in Mountain View.

TripleByte isn’t what they used to be, though. I don’t think they do anything close to what I experienced anymore.