> Do you expect to get hired at companies without ever getting interviewed by them? Triplebyte culls out as much of the process as you can realistically expect to be culled
Almost all other fields are capable of trusting third parties to certify competence. They interview for fit, but with a basic understanding that the candidate is qualified.
Employers waste less time giving interviews, and benefit from a more accurate filter than they could develop in-house.
Employees waste less time giving interviews, and will find out early (i.e. by failing college classes, prompting them to switch majors) if the work isn't for them. Good practitioners are unlikely to be denied their dream jobs by the unreliability of the interview process, and truly incompetent practitioners aren't allowed to keep trying until something sticks because (below some threshold) they'll never get in the door. They're given the benefit of the doubt for making it through the main gate (undergrad/bar exam/whatever) and from there, judged on the basis of their performance in their actual role, not how well the study for a song-and-dance routine that approximates the role.
Triplebyte's value proposition is to be such a trusted third party for software engineering, since universities aren't. If companies don't trust it, and view people who passed Triplebyte with the same "incompetent fraud until proven otherwise" lens they apply to everyone else, then Triplebyte isn't adding value for anyone in the ecosystem.
I think you can realistically expect the skills test to be culled from interview processes: in other fields, it never even appeared.