3 years ago
Excellent recruiting company which will be a great...
Excellent recruiting company which will be a great advocate for you throughout your job search, assuming you can pass their interview.
I took the online multiple-choice quiz in the evening and was able to schedule my 2-hour video interview for the next morning. It took closer to 3 hours and was challenging and engaging, covering a wide range of topics. For the coding parts, I used my own programming environment and my choice of language with screen-sharing. I felt that I'd represented my abilities well but was concerned about how many questions I'd been unable to answer. It's totally fine to fail some categories though, since you're mainly evaluated on the couple of areas in which you're strongest. I received several pages of detailed feedback after the interview.
Once I passed this screening stage, I was invited for on-site interviews at lots of interesting startups and a couple larger companies. TripleByte organized the travel and the interviews proceeded smoothly. Offers arrived quickly after the interviews and were highly competitive.
Their system is very different from anything else I've tried. It's really an improvement over the usual process of applying to dozens of companies to get one or two on-sites. I think it would be especially useful for people who have good technical skills but lack the usual background sought by all the top tech firms (CS degree from top university, tons of job experience before graduating).
If you're still trying to break into the top tier of tech jobs, you should definitely give the TripleByte interview a shot.