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I quite liked the application process, it was very smooth. I'm interested to see how the rest of the process goes – since the two interviews are just chatting a

I quite liked the application process, it was very smooth. I'm interested to see how the rest of the process goes – since the two interviews are just chatting about projects I've worked on and having someone watch me code, it doesn't seem to stressful. (Let's be honest – it's sometimes hard to get me to shut up about projects I've worked on or want to work on...) I'm particularly interested in this as a startup filter. There are a lot of startups out there, many that I don't know about. I'm wondering if Triplebyte could help me find something I'm interested in by filtering out startups that I'm unlikely to be interested in. If they can do that, I'll be a huge fan, and if they can't (because I'm too picky), then it's not too time-consuming or stressful a process to have tried it.

Harj 11y ago
> I'm particularly interested in this as a startup filter. There are a lot of startups out there, many that I don't know about. I'm wondering if Triplebyte could help me find something I'm interested in by filtering out startups that I'm unlikely to be interested in. That's exactly what we're going to do. There's an increasing number of tools to help investors find startups to invest in and the same should exist for applicants, since that's essentially what they're doing with their time.
- MCRed 11y ago
  I'm curious what info you derive from "watching someone code". I've hired a lot of people over the years and found what works best for me is to just talk to them, no coding. But if you're in a screen share and wathicng someone code and watching them make mistakes, type poorly, or sit there thinking with the cursor just blinking isn't this sort of an interpretive performance art that you're trying to then judge objectively? How do you avoid being biased to hiring only people who type fast? (There seems to be this obsession with lines of code per minute to the detriment of effective functionality per week in our industry.)

Harj 11y ago

> I'm particularly interested in this as a startup filter. There are a lot of startups out there, many that I don't know about. I'm wondering if Triplebyte could help me find something I'm interested in by filtering out startups that I'm unlikely to be interested in. That's exactly what we're going to do. There's an increasing number of tools to help investors find startups to invest in and the same should exist for applicants, since that's essentially what they're doing with their time.

MCRed 11y ago
I'm curious what info you derive from "watching someone code". I've hired a lot of people over the years and found what works best for me is to just talk to them, no coding. But if you're in a screen share and wathicng someone code and watching them make mistakes, type poorly, or sit there thinking with the cursor just blinking isn't this sort of an interpretive performance art that you're trying to then judge objectively? How do you avoid being biased to hiring only people who type fast? (There seems to be this obsession with lines of code per minute to the detriment of effective functionality per week in our industry.)