Become a Writer at Triplebyte
tl;dr Triplebyte is hiring a writer to work full-time on our blog. This is a chance to join an exciting (quickly growing) startup, research and write in-depth pieces about hiring (and take the time to do this well), and help improve interviews and end hiring bias.
What we do
Triplebyte is improving the way engineers are hired. Interviewing is hard. Too often companies employ aggressive resume screens, and reject great programmers who come from non-traditional backgrounds. Too often interviewers mistake gut feeling (easily swayed by bias) for crisp evaluation, and reject programmers who don’t look like people they’ve worked with in the past.
This is the problem we’re solving at Triplebyte. We’ve built a background-blind interview process, and we use it to find engineers and help them get jobs at 150 top companies (including Stripe, Uber and Khan Academy). We carefully track our process, measure its error and bias, and improve it over time. Paul Graham, founder of the well-known startup incubator Y Combinator, wrote about us:
“If Triplebyte succeeds, we end up with a world where people worry only about learning and being good at what they do, rather than how they look on paper”.
You can read more about us in the press
- Why This Tech Recruiting Platform Doesn’t Accept Resumes (Fast Company)
- What Makes Silicon Valley’s Hottest Companies Want to Hire You (Inc.)
- Triplebyte Coding Bootcamp Study (Fortune)
- Triplebyte Raises $3M (TechCrunch)
The job
We’re looking for a writer to tell compelling stories with data. We’ve interviewed 1000 engineers over the last year, and collected a lot of interesting data. We use this data on our blog, writing about how graduates of coding bootcamps pass interviews at similar rates to university grads, and how companies differ in what skills they look for. This writing has struck a nerve in the programming community, and been read hundreds of thousands of times. Large companies have changed their interview processes because of the research we’ve done. We’re now hiring a writer to do this research and writing full time. This position includes full benefits, and is in our San Francisco office.
Examples of topics we would like to cover include the salary differences between the SF Bay Area and other locations (does it make sense for engineers to move to SF?), the prevalence of remote work (is it harder or easier to get a remote job?), gender/age bias in hiring (How common is it?), and how credentials impact hiring decisions. We have insightful data on all these topics. The job also includes coming up with new ideas, and researching them. Not all our posts will involve interview data. But we want each post to be a definitive investigation into its area, and are willing to invest time and engineering resources into every post. This is really a chance to work slowly and produce substantive writing.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for people with two principle skills. First, you need to enjoy crafting words, and be comfortable iterating on a post until it is just right. Our blog needs to not just be correct, it needs to be fun to read. Second, you need to be comfortable with statistics and analytical thinking. You don’t necessarily need a technical background, but our audience is technical, so you need to be comfortable writing accurately about technical things. It helps to be a bit of a nerd!
How to apply
Send an email to ammon@triplebyte.com or apply here. Please include the following information in your application.
- A description of your background and experience writing, and why you’re interested in this job. A resume is fine (so is a brief paragraph or a link to LinkedIn).
- A sample of your writing. Pick something that you’re proud of, that shows your ability to craft words (an essay is better then a technical manual).
- Your opinion on the doomsday argument. (We’re not looking for any particular opinion. We just want to see you engage with a statistical topic.)
