[labaron]

I used FastTrack in the early days and loved the product.

Problem was their question bank was too small so it was easy for anyone motivated to cheat. I spent under an hour reading reviews of what questions were asked, prepared solutions for those questions, and then in the interview there were no surprises. I merely regurgitated my prepared solutions. One of them was making a tic tac toe game.

If employers knew how easy it was to pass the Triplebyte exam then I wonder how many would have allowed candidates to skip to onsite.

[rachofsunshine]

This was an issue, but less of one than you'd probably think. I estimate that roughly 10% of people we vouched for were cheating. 10% is certainly not zero, and it was occasionally trouble with clients, but 10% also kind of disappears into the general noise of different hiring processes and steps to the point that that estimate could be off by a factor of 2 or 3 in either direction.

There's also the sort of sad statement that even prepping that much puts you far ahead of the average candidate. We TOLD candidates what to expect (and we do at Otherbranch, too) and the overwhelming majority do not even read that, which requires no active searching, no moral compromise, and no pre-knowledge of our process.

Triplebyte did, late in the history of FastTrack, start rotating problems a bit to address that problem.