Really cool. What niche is this serving that TripleByte doesn't? My impression was that if you wanted to apply to any YC company at once, TripleByte was the way to go.
Triplebyte doesn't work as a common app to all YC companies like Work at a Startup. Specific things that we do differently are:
- A background blind technical skills evaluation is our application process in lieu of submitting your resume.
- We don't introduce you to all the companies we work with, only the ones where our data predicts you have a high chance of receiving an offer.
- Companies expedite their own hiring process for Triplebyte candidates skipping technical phone screens/coding challenges.
- Each engineer gets a Talent Manager who offers them career advice, interview and negotiation help and general support throughout the job search process.
- Work with non-YC companies e.g. Apple, Asana and Coursera.
I'd say that Work at a Startup is a good way to get in front of a lot of startups at once and run a breadth first job search. Triplebyte is a good way to run a targeted job search optimizing your offer to interview ratio.
Right now since we only target software folks, you're correct that the two services do indeed overlap quite a bit. I think the differentiation will be more clear once we expand beyond software engineers, which we're hoping to do soon.
The two services also differ in that Work at a Startup does not attempt to do any technical vetting; simply start conversations. The reasoning for this is that when founders are hiring their first handful of employees, it's often more important to find people that believe in your company's product/mission rather than people with a particular background. Founders are often constrained by how big of a "friend tree" they have to shake. Simply put, Work at a Startup gives founders the opportunity to pitch a lot more potential early employees than they'd otherwise have access to.
All this being said, TripleByte is certainly still a great option to go with for a lot of folks and does indeed have a close relationship with a lot of YC companies!
That it isn’t TripleByte. When I applied at TripleByte I must have fallen through the cracks. My account doesn’t let me go forward it seems to be stuck in limbo. Their promise of interviewing people never occurs. They constantly change the rules for the sole reason that it’s just another staffing agency with a automated test .
Unfortunately there is no true common app that really puts you in front of all YC companies yet. Because TripleByte charges companies a fee for each person hired, not all YC companies work with them. And because Work At A Startup is so new, not all YC companies are using it yet.
There's no alternative because there's no demand. Almost no company wants to hire remotely and pay good wages, and those that do have >10 qualified candidates for each position.
