My Triplebyte Experience (pre-onsites)

Some background: I’m a backend software developer finishing up my first year at a small company, and have been looking to move to somewhere with more traditional technologies (and that doesn’t use windows as a primary OS). I graduated with a degree in physics, and accidentally stumbled onto a love of software development and linux while screwing around in my free time. I accidentally ended up learning a significant amount from my time around my CS friends, and well here I am.

About a month ago I stumbled onto Triplebyte online, and decided to take a shot. I had certainly seen a bunch of ads over time, and a friend had mentioned it to me about a year ago when I began my job search. I went and took the online quiz, only took about five minutes to complete, and then I got a message saying I did “exceptional well” and within the top few percent of test takers.

This then led me to a portal where I could schedule a practice interview. On a whim I decided to try the practice interview the next day without much preparation, since there was a time slot open. The interview was two hours long and consistent of four sections, a coding section, a short answer session, debugging, and system design. The practice interview went mostly well.

From that practice interview I receive ~2 pages of detailed feedback with advice on what I could do to improve for the real final interview. They included links to many resources, and I read as much of it as I could over the next two weeks. Just for the practice interview alone, it was worth it as an early engineer without much developer experience.

After the practice interview there was a two week cool down period where I read all the blog posts they sent me, and as much of the longer material I could for my weaker areas. Then it was time to schedule a final interview. I scheduled the final interview. Final interview was the same format as the first interview.

After the final interview I soon received noticed that I passed the interview, and that I had been “accepted to Triplebyte”. I was assigned a “Talent Manager”, and had to fill out a profile. Once I filled out my profile, I was able to “go live”, where companies would be able to see my profile.

Shortly after being accepted to triplebyte I received a copy of “Cracking the Coding Interview” and later received a free Triplebyte jacket, along with a wireless charger.

After going live I was contacted by a few companies, and had pitch calls scheduled at them. The pitch calls were as advertised, no technical screening, and few questions asked to me. Mostly an opportunity for me to ask questions of the companies.