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More like: "Getting noticed if being doxed and then shuffled into a mediocre job are your thing"

The article is clearly marketing. Advice #1 is effectively just saying "don't suck". Obviously you should be producing good, useful, readable, and maintained code. That's not the path to getting noticed, but more like a prerequisite for not getting fired.

Which the author apparently did not follow. Why does this need 3rd party JavaScript just to display the background behind the source code example? With uBlock Origin, it's white text on white background...

And in line with my impression of that article, here's the "amazing" jobs that wait for you when you succeed with TripleByte's advice: https://triplebyte.com/jobs

It's all about becoming a tiny cog in a big machine.

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20 jobs at Coinbase, 1 at Facebook, 2 at TrueCar in the front page. Amazing diversity.

I’ve interviewed with both Facebook and Coinbase via Triplebyte. Guess what? Both forced me through a complete gauntlet of interviews and disregarded Triplebyte’s report entirely. So what is the point of Triplebyte in all of this?

I think the point is getting an interview at companies that would otherwise completely ignore you if you applied through the normal process. Probably most valuable for people who do well on the tests but don't have a particularly impressive looking resume/CV.

Personal experience:

I went through Triplebyte personally a few years back - twice. I was able to pass their evaluation/interview without any prep and got in to the matching phase.

The first time: I got matched with one company which ended up hiring someone before I could interview and another company that declined to go further after a phone screen.

The second time: I wasn't matched with anything.

The only reason I ended up trying to go through them was because I had a virtually nonexistent response rate through the normal application process while looking for my first job and I thought it would help me get through the initial resume filtering stage which is where I assume I get dropped all the time.

We (Remind) hire a lot through Triplebyte. We replace our technical phone screen with Triplebyte's report, but we still do our full onsite. Our onsite is very focused on collaboration and communication rather than just coding ability and we don't get those signals from Triplebyte.

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