If you're a fresh graduate or self-taught like myself, getting your foot in the door is tough.
And TripleByte's model is also to let you skip stages of the interview process IIRC, which is appealing no matter how much experience you have.
Covered by "Sure, if you have no experience, one would be tempted to go through the whole hiring filtration as a service"
> self-taught like myself
I'm self taught as well, and a dropout. I just assume that's going to be a PITA everytime I want to find something because I have to filter out all the companies/people I don't want to work for and mostly because of the time it takes.
> And TripleByte's model is also to let you skip stages of the interview process IIRC, which is appealing no matter how much experience you have.
With companies who are interested in using their service (after you have already scanned, uploaded oneself and jumped through all the services hoops and agreed to be at the whim of whatever they decide to do with said data now and forever more into the future) and who have not yet run into the problems (i.e. incentivizing people gaming the system) that the person I originally responded to has run into and that many corps have run into with similar services in the past.
The part I want to skip is the part where a corp ignores the content of what I sent and sends a TripleByte link mixed with some boiler plate…
I have been quite successful despite this lack of permanent connection. I literally can’t think of anyone I could contact who would give me a leg up for a job.
> I literally can’t think of anyone I could contact who would give me a leg up for a job.
You can, you still have
> colleagues who have seen my technical work number less than 15. Most of those are in the military.
that you just choose not to leverage such "connection" explicitly, but its probably implied to some degree on your resume.
It's like some are surprised that there are many ways to skin a cat, and different corps have different preferences…
With no work experience? They don't have anyone at all from the last place they worked who could vouch for their ability to write code/design systems/fix bugs?
I find that very hard to believe. Though I'm saying this from my experience, I have no "network" of people to rely on (and I'm not also on social media) unless you consider contact info of people I worked with in the past as a network.
Sure, if you have no experience, one would be tempted to go through the whole hiring filtration as a service, but as soon as you get a job, you can just let future employers ask anyone who worked with you in the past (while ignoring those that wont accept that) and provide contact info rather than jumping through the next hiring filtration as a service again. At the very least, you wouldn't rely on the hiring filtration hiring filtration as a service funnel as much.