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My impression is that they are still around, but they failed to deliver the "recruiting revolution" and I think the reasons are:

- The screening had a lot of false negatives. "I got rejected by Triplebyte, but got a FAANG offer" is quite common.

- Most companies used Triplebyte not as an interview replacement, but as an additional screening process, which means that as a candidate, you don't have any real incentive to use them.

The only real use case I heard recently about Triplebyte is to send candidate who normally you wouldn't even screen, so if they pass Triplebyte process, you know that you should consider the candidate, but if they fail is fine because you would have passed them anyways

>>gcampo+(OP)
"Most companies used Triplebyte not as an interview replacement, but as an additional screening process, which means that as a candidate, you don't have any real incentive to use them."

I used them many years ago, this was my impression. When I got to company "on sites" they were just full-blown interview loops. I could have just applied to the companies directly.

>>site-p+jb
I had a good experience with them as a new grad. A couple hours with TripleByte got me a free plane ticket to Silicon Valley, a hotel room, free Uber rides around the bay, and 5 on site interviews back-to-back. The product was an amazing deal for candidates. I had to do very little work and it got my foot in the door. 4 years later and I now work for Google in Mountain View.

TripleByte isn’t what they used to be, though. I don’t think they do anything close to what I experienced anymore.

>>teaear+vn
What you described is just how Google (and others, in the before times) conducted onsite interviews. TripleByte got you a recruiter’s attention, maybe; but the rest was standard fare.

>>cmckn+pu
No that sounds like something Triplebyte might have set up. I got something similar but no plane tickets and Uber since I was already in the bay area. But I got the stack of interviews and several free meals / coffee courtesy of Triplebyte. Plus I still have the jacket and coffee mug. I know the current Triplebyte experience isn't anything like the early one, but this thread does start to sound like a false alarm.

>>cmckn+pu
I didn’t get a job at Google through TripleByte. I spent 2.5 years at point.com, and a year at copy.ai before heading to big G.