Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent?
I totally forgot about Triplebyte.  Are they even relevant still?  I remember back when it seemed like their ads were appearing everywhere and was a bit worried they were going to be the new way of hiring engineering talent.  Seems like there's been nothing but crickets chirping for the last few years.<p>Why?  My experience with them was pretty bad.  I took their assessment for web development, I think I even did an assignment, and got put on a video call with someone from Triplebyte.  He never cracked a smile.  Suddenly I got asked a bunch of CS questions that really were not very relevant to web development, some of which were entirely inappropriate like sorting a binary search tree.  I even told the guy that I thought I was getting those questions wrong and he just scowled and said "well you just don't know when you're going to use this stuff."  "My point exactly," I thought.<p>Ultimately I got rejected.<p>The whole idea that you can boil down a candidate to some coding challenges and a video quiz is bad.  I do like the idea of streamlining the hiring process for developers, but there's more to it than knowing a bunch of stuff, because that can be gamed.  And quizzing me on irrelevant material was a bad move.  A firm like Triplebyte won't be as good at interviewing a candidate as the employer itself, and may even keep perfectly qualified candidates out of view from all employers affiliated with them.