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>>terafl+(OP)
I totally forgot about Triplebyte. Are they even relevant still? I remember back when it seemed like their ads were appearing everywhere and was a bit worried they were going to be the new way of hiring engineering talent. Seems like there's been nothing but crickets chirping for the last few years.

Why? My experience with them was pretty bad. I took their assessment for web development, I think I even did an assignment, and got put on a video call with someone from Triplebyte. He never cracked a smile. Suddenly I got asked a bunch of CS questions that really were not very relevant to web development, some of which were entirely inappropriate like sorting a binary search tree. I even told the guy that I thought I was getting those questions wrong and he just scowled and said "well you just don't know when you're going to use this stuff." "My point exactly," I thought.

Ultimately I got rejected.

The whole idea that you can boil down a candidate to some coding challenges and a video quiz is bad. I do like the idea of streamlining the hiring process for developers, but there's more to it than knowing a bunch of stuff, because that can be gamed. And quizzing me on irrelevant material was a bad move. A firm like Triplebyte won't be as good at interviewing a candidate as the employer itself, and may even keep perfectly qualified candidates out of view from all employers affiliated with them.

>>ravens+l8
Wow, that sounds pretty bad. When I went through they did 4 different interviews (a little bit fuzzy; many years ago) but it did:

1) Create an incremental game (start simple, see how far you can get) 2) Live debugging (can run tests, they fail, you need to figure out why and fix it) 3) Flash rounds (Do you know what Big O is? Can you explain linked lists?) 4) ... I forget

I thought it was one of the widest range of actual skills and their final assessment I agreed with. Stayed away from algorithms-y questions (which I hate)