Rethinking Triplebyte
I&#x27;m personally very excited to see this change by an industry leader! I think that there&#x27;s a seismic shift waiting to happen w.r.t. engineer hiring. The &quot;old guard&quot; of hazing, quizzing, and gotcha-style interviews are slowly losing ground.<p>The most friction when switching jobs is the interview process -- and the question is <i>why?</i> I&#x27;ve been writing code for a decade+ now, working on startups, for known tech companies, public open-source, and have written a freakin&#x27; <i>book</i>! But, oh, my bad, I couldn&#x27;t figure out a solution to your optimization question. I forgot how to implement the zig operation in a splay tree. I might simply not function well under pressure. Maybe I&#x27;m having a bad day.<p>Companies are missing out on literal geniuses by using outdated hiring practices. And, I get it, Google doesn&#x27;t care. Amazon doesn&#x27;t care. (There&#x27;s an argument that they should.) They&#x27;re huge and get X,XXX applicants daily. But why are small startups using the same hiring methodologies? It quite literally makes no sense. They&#x27;re shooting themselves in the foot. I&#x27;m very passionate about this, and I&#x27;m working on a book on how to hire engineers. Maybe I&#x27;ll actually finish it one of these days :)