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I'm sorry that the interview went poorly! I'm especially sorry about the lateness. I just pulled up our notes from your interview, and I was your interviewer! So that makes it especially bad :(

I'm not an expert in all areas. At the end of the interview we have a section where we let the discussion go into whatever technical area the engineer wants to talk about. It sounds like you're an expert in an area where I am not. In those cases I try to ask questions and push deep, but (depending on the topic) that can be hard.

edit: removed discussion of the specific topic discussed. Sorry, folks below are right

Expertise is something our model handles less well (it's much harder to standardize). This certainly results in us failing some great people (and it sounds like that may have happened here). I'm happy to talk about this more. Give me an email at ammon@triplebyte.com.

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I have to say, I give you props for responding so cordially after I was overtly harsh. I'm sure you could have bashed me, but didn't so thank you.

That being said, I think the best way to improve the process is to try to standardize it by area of expertise. I'm sure that is done to some degree, but I think more pronounced may be better. I think of roles within companies are too static and don't actually represent role(s).

Regardless, best of luck. I didn't mean to be a dick, but I felt obligated to share my opinion in this case.

You are thanking someone for not bashing you publicly? What am I missing? I didn't see anything "harsh" in you sharing your experience.

Based on your other replies, it sounds like the computer vision part of the interview was fine then. Did you struggle with other parts of the interview then technically speaking?

I'm sure I did, although I don't recall any hard fail. Could have been social skills too I suppose. Either way, I feel my original comment was the real gripe I had. It left a bad taste in my mouth and that damages reputations.

It's reasonable to want to defend yourself and set things right, but I don't think you should be sharing specific notes from an interview where the interviewee had a pretty reasonable expectation of privacy. (unless you already got permission?)

ammon seemed like he made a good choice on balancing what to share and what not to share.

I agree with you, he could have been exceededingly harsh. He shared what he did and overall I'm not displeased, it was honest and didn't make me look too bad (which again, he could have done I'm sure)

On the other hand, sharing my info publically is not professional. I shared what I viewed as unprofessional, without specifics regarding interviewer or even questions. He shared my technical expertise and much more specific details regarding my question(s) and interview.

That kind of goes along with my original point, it seems abrasive and leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

Quite honestly, it probably damages their reputation more by responding. Why would someone want to interview somewhere, where they know if they criticize, their interview could be made public.

Sharing anything like this on a public forum is exceedingly unprofessional, regardless of whether the content is positive or negative. If candidates don't have an expectation of privacy, they won't provide honest answers, which drastically undermines Triplebyte's claims about more effective evaluation.

I took the original comment about the interview with a grain of salt(these things are inherently subjective). But it's fairly obvious now that they're as unprofessional as claimed. Hope no one from Apple or Facebook sees this.

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