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Hey, one of the Triplebyte founders here. We do using coding problems but we try hard to mitigate the issues you bring up. We give candidates a selection of pro
by Harj 11y ago
Hey, one of the Triplebyte founders here. We do using coding problems but we try hard to mitigate the issues you bring up. We give candidates a selection of problems to choose from and we'll often explain how to solve a problem if it seems they're getting stuck. We're less interested in sudden flashes of insight and more looking to see if someone can write code and implement ideas they talk about.
We know it's still not perfect though and our goal is to keep experimenting to find what works best and be open about the results. As we mentioned in our last blog post, we're planning to offer take home tests as an option for our next experiment.
- grey-area 11y agoI found the tests pretty interesting and thankfully not puzzle-like, though a little like an advanced fizzbuzz as it was a series of unconnected methods. I was really hoping for some feedback at the end as to how I did and what the weak areas were, do you offer any feedback at all? Perhaps as well as take home tests you could consider a longer form one which builds a feature using several methods, offering help if required so most people don't get stuck. Say parsing a set of data files, something like that. When hiring I've found walking through something like real work with candidates most useful, and also crucially using the same challenge for all for comparison.