They got me a stellar job many years ago, but unfortunately for them it's hard to monetize candidates unless they return through the same pipeline. My outcome was great, but I was one and done.

I applied to TripleByte in 2019. I passed the interview, they sent me some swag, and then had my profile "go live" for a week(?). I didn't get a single interested company, and then they took my profile down and said I can try again in 6 months. I don't really have much of a takeaway from this, I guess, other than they also had other failure cases that caused them to lose money.

I went through the process and liked it too. The engineer made critiques about my code that I found silly though, which really makes me question if I would really trust a candidate approved by them.

In my case, they didn't support my specialty (robotics/embedded) and focused the tests of DB scaling because that's what the interviewer knew. Like, I'm sure it was a good test for somebody, but it made no sense as a validation of my skills or experience.

Yeah, we didn't have a good embedded track. We called it "generalist" (well, we didn't call it anything at first, but it became "generalist" later), but it was really back-end-leaning full-stack web dev.