Triplebyte Raises $10M from Initialized Capital, Marissa Mayer and Paul Graham
&gt; We started Triplebyte because we were frustrated by the noise present in every step of the hiring process.<p>This is largely just a software&#x2F;technology problem.  In all other professional industries there are means to validate a candidate&#x27;s competency before they are allowed to interview for a position: licensing, required internships, legal certifications&#x2F;authorizations, authorized relationships, and so forth.<p>Technology doesn&#x27;t have this.  The big difference is that in those other professions they are using the interview to actually interview the candidate, as in the person.  In software and technology the entire interview is used to gauge basic competency and even then the trust relationship is inherently broken.<p>Contrary to what technologists will tell you the problem isn&#x27;t the hiring process or low salaries (preposterous answer unless you live in the bay area).  These are symptoms of a broken trust relationship.  Hiring companies inherently do not trust the people they are interviewing as basically competent unless they have been told otherwise by somebody they know personally.<p>Hiring companies shouldn&#x27;t trust a candidate is minimally competent, because there is no means to a standard baseline on which competency is measured.  That is the primary problem.  Solve for this problem and the resulting symptoms are easily addressed by the marketplace as a matter of economics.<p>---<p>The problem is very clear to see when you have two simultaneous careers: one as a software developer and a different one in an unrelated industry that has professionally addressed these concerns with required professional education and accreditation&#x2F;licensing.