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I got my foot in the door in tech through triplebyte after a couple months of job applications. I had a very small number of triplebyte company "matches", but

by naet 4y ago

I got my foot in the door in tech through triplebyte after a couple months of job applications. I had a very small number of triplebyte company "matches", but I got a good review on my triplebyte front end interview and ended up landing a good job at a growing startup... only for the company to lay off the entire office 3 months later after the initial Covid outbreak (but the production experience taught me a lot and helped me get my next role). I had less success when I came back 2-3 years later and tried to get another role through them, but I'll always be thankful for the initial foot in. At at time when many places didn't want to consider me at all for having no professional experience, triplebyte was willing to give me the chance to interview and judge me on my answers instead. Even just the interview process was a good learning experience and I could research any topics I didn't know afterwards. I like to riff off one of the questions from my triplebyte interview when I now interview candidates- the "used car" architecture question. Makes for a great open ended technical discussion.

theonething 4y ago
What is the used car architecture question?
- rachofsunshine 4y ago
  It was a question from Triplebyte's old FastTrack interviews, back when we did a more active high-touch placement model. The gist of the question was "you're setting up a site that sells used cars, and you have information like make, model, milage, etc. for each car that you want to search by, how do you go about setting up your architecture?" Good candidates would ask about things like scale, or note that this system probably doesn't need to be ultra-reliable, or ask about the kind of constraints they can assume on the car data. Things that showed they understood the relevant tradeoffs and could apply them to the specifics of the situation. Once they gave a basic architecture, we'd make some tweaks like scaling or adding other complications and ask how they'd modify that architecture to fit.

by naet 4y ago

theonething 4y ago

What is the used car architecture question?

rachofsunshine 4y ago
It was a question from Triplebyte's old FastTrack interviews, back when we did a more active high-touch placement model. The gist of the question was "you're setting up a site that sells used cars, and you have information like make, model, milage, etc. for each car that you want to search by, how do you go about setting up your architecture?" Good candidates would ask about things like scale, or note that this system probably doesn't need to be ultra-reliable, or ask about the kind of constraints they can assume on the car data. Things that showed they understood the relevant tradeoffs and could apply them to the specifics of the situation. Once they gave a basic architecture, we'd make some tweaks like scaling or adding other complications and ask how they'd modify that architecture to fit.