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> I’ve tried Triplebyte to a resounding failure. Do you mind sharing more about what didn't work out? Did you pass/fail the Triplebyte test? Did you meet with

by mekoka 4y ago

> I’ve tried Triplebyte to a resounding failure. Do you mind sharing more about what didn't work out? Did you pass/fail the Triplebyte test? Did you meet with a few interested companies afterward, but nothing came of it?

raydiatian 4y ago
1. I took placement exams, but found them to be wildly inaccurate, or just downright meaningless. For instance, I scored in the penultimate top range for back-end, front-end, architecture. Top 80-90% IIRC. I took the JS placement exam (the language I use daily to build and solo-maintain an entire microservice-oriented project I produced from scratch) but couldn’t even muster a “proficient” placement. Like are you kidding me? What a joke. 2. I was under the impression that Triplebyte was designed to skip the technical interview, but basically the placement exams were pointless, because I ended up doing a tech interview for each and every single company. 3. I started realizing that every message I received on the website was a bulk message. I got messages to be a technical cofounder at an AI joint once, which is an absurd mismatch. I was looking for senior SE roles. 4. Nobody reads the resume on the website, because every company expects me to send a hard copy over. 5. The final straw was that one company was clearly just a scam. I reached out to Triplebyte about it and they straight up ignored me. I ended up just deleting my account. Clearly I’m not Triplebyte’s target demographic of prodigious rockstar coders that implemented his/her first Trie at age 7, which means Im basically just another datapoint for the company to sell and jump through the same old hoops. I might as well use LinkedIn or Indeed.
- britzkopf 4y ago
  I had the exact same experience regarding high front/back end score, and then managing a 2 on JS. I even took note of some of the questions and retook the test and ended up getting many of the same questions, but this time answering much more carefully yet ended with the same score so I question the assessment.

by mekoka 4y ago

raydiatian 4y ago

1. I took placement exams, but found them to be wildly inaccurate, or just downright meaningless. For instance, I scored in the penultimate top range for back-end, front-end, architecture. Top 80-90% IIRC. I took the JS placement exam (the language I use daily to build and solo-maintain an entire microservice-oriented project I produced from scratch) but couldn’t even muster a “proficient” placement. Like are you kidding me? What a joke. 2. I was under the impression that Triplebyte was designed to skip the technical interview, but basically the placement exams were pointless, because I ended up doing a tech interview for each and every single company. 3. I started realizing that every message I received on the website was a bulk message. I got messages to be a technical cofounder at an AI joint once, which is an absurd mismatch. I was looking for senior SE roles. 4. Nobody reads the resume on the website, because every company expects me to send a hard copy over. 5. The final straw was that one company was clearly just a scam. I reached out to Triplebyte about it and they straight up ignored me. I ended up just deleting my account. Clearly I’m not Triplebyte’s target demographic of prodigious rockstar coders that implemented his/her first Trie at age 7, which means Im basically just another datapoint for the company to sell and jump through the same old hoops. I might as well use LinkedIn or Indeed.

britzkopf 4y ago
I had the exact same experience regarding high front/back end score, and then managing a 2 on JS. I even took note of some of the questions and retook the test and ended up getting many of the same questions, but this time answering much more carefully yet ended with the same score so I question the assessment.