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I'm going through the Triplebyte process right now (I passed their interview last month and have just started the bit where I talk with companies this week) and that is not at all what they seemed to be testing. Their famous quiz seemed to mostly be checking if you have any idea what you're doing[1], and their two-hour interview[2] spent less than ten minutes on data structures. I muddled through that bit by saying things that sounded plausible (with lots of disclaimers that that was what I was doing and that I had no experience with low-level code) and still passed it with flying colors. Having gone through this process I would say that having some experience and being able to write practical code is probably the best way to prepare, and studying interview questions would probably be fairly ineffective.

[1] One of the incorrect answers was to use a factory function that passed the data to an assembly line interface which put it in a package class and shipped it to the user interface.

[2] https://triplebyte.com/interview_guide



Thanks for this - I'm actually more familiar with more pure coder test approaches like HackerRank and just mentioned TripleByte in the same breath because they've been advertising their coding test heavily in parts of SF I see (proving that at least some ad dollars do work to some extent).




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