Harj

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by Harj 10y ago
They key thing is to minimize the amount of time a candidate is waiting back to hear from you on the next step. We see a strong correlation between the companies who have the highest closing rates on candidates (70% or more) and how respons
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by Harj 10y ago
This is the first time I've seen a data visualization of the job search process for a software engineer and it's amazing to see the variability in responsiveness between companies. This is actually the most surprising thing I&#x27
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Visualizing a Job Search Or: How to Find a Job as a Software Engineer(kellysutton.com)
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Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring Talent Managers(jobs.lever.co)
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Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring an Operations Manager(jobs.lever.co)
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Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring a Talent Manager(medium.com)
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Triplebyte (YC S15) is hiring for operations and talent to end credentialism(jobs.lever.co)
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Triplebyte (YC S15) Is Hiring a UX Designer(jobs.lever.co)
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by Harj 10y ago
We agree, that's why our technical interviews are done blind without knowing anything about the credentials of a candidate.
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by Harj 10y ago
Getting a phone interview by contacting a company is easy if you have the right resume credentials. If not, you need someone to vouch for you to even get in the door. That's what we're doing for engineers who are strong but lack t
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by Harj 10y ago
That said, I hope they can start offering more value over time. We currently do help with thinking through offer details. We've been building up a database of what offer ranges are and help people use these to value their offers (equ
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by Harj 10y ago
We've worked with enough engineers to be confident they're finding value and advantages to using Triplebyte. The feedback has included finding interesting companies (especially earlier stage ones) they'd not known about, ski
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by Harj 10y ago
This is something we're able to do too by encouraging people to reapply and tracking how much they've improved between technical interviews. It makes sense for companies to do this too but they don't, mostly because it's
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by Harj 10y ago
That's under the "Long Term" section of our product roadmap.
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by Harj 10y ago
Finding the right company to join is hard, you have to find which companies are doing interesting things that match your interests and then narrow down to the ones where you'll be both a technical and cultural fit. Failed interviews a
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by Harj 10y ago
When we started Triplebyte, we'd thought there would be pretty much a straight line from being a bad to great programmer and we'd just have to figure out where to put the cut off when deciding whether to work with an engineer. Th
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by Harj 10y ago
I apologize for that. Writing personalized rejection emails for interviewees that gives clear feedback is something we're committed to and we apologize we didn't meet that goal here. I don't know the specifics of your interv
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Triplebyte (YC W15) is hiring our first designer(jobs.lever.co)
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by Harj 11y ago
Usually the only way to circumvent the technical phone screens at a company are if you're coming in through a strong referral. That's great if you already have a strong network, not so much if you either don't have personal
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by Harj 11y ago
If you apply to Triplebyte you don't go through the full interview process at the companies we introduce you to. You skip the technical phone screens (most companies do 1 or 2 hour long phone screens before bringing candidates onsite)
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by Harj 11y ago
Sure that works early on but we wanted to get momentum behind a solution that would work for any size/stage of company.
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by Harj 11y ago
It's ten years from the date the options are granted, which is how long the options themselves last for.
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by Harj 11y ago
Sorry about that, fixed. Here's the link: https://data.triplebyte.com/extending-stock-option-exercise-...
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by Harj 11y ago
We're excited to make 10 years the new standard option exercise window for startup employees. Each of us have personally experienced someone close to us dealing with the stress of trying to exercise their options within 90 days and it
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Fixing the Inequity of Startup Equity(data.triplebyte.com)
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Triplebyte (YC W15) Is Hiring for User Success and Support(jobs.lever.co)
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Triplebyte (YC W15) Is Hiring a Head of Operations and Support
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by Harj 11y ago
Absolutely, we keep in touch with companies post hiring and are gathering that data too. It won't be meaningful for a while though, interview performance gives us a tangible starting point.
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Who Y Combinator Companies Want(data.triplebyte.com)
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by Harj 11y ago
This is why we think there's an opportunity for us (Triplebyte). Smaller companies have to focus their recruiting on pools with a high expected ROI (top technology companies/schools/etc). We're specializing in identifyin

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