Triplebyte is now available for engineers and companies hiring in Seattle and Los Angeles!

Our team just moved to a larger office with unterminated ethernet cables, no uplink, and no Wi-Fi. Here’s a smorgasbord of suggestions — some well-known and others obscure — that helped me get a reliable network running fast.

Hiring the best employees and building a strong culture are imperatives for any company. However, culture fit screens in the interview process have been shown to introduce significant bias. In this post, I dig into what companies actually mean by culture fit, and try to find a way to resolve this conflict. I hope this post will be useful for hiring manager designing an interview process, or engineers getting ready for interviews.

Once you've found an engineer you want to hire, the final step is presenting them an offer to join your team and convincing them to accept it. This post offers advice for increasing the percentage of the offers you make that are accepted.

In this employee-friendly market, lots of things about the hiring process have changed to accommodate candidates. But companies don’t seem interested in the goodwill they could earn by giving honest, individual feedback. I work at Triplebyte, and over the last year I’ve written over 3,000 detailed, individual rejection emails. When I started, I wondered why no one else did this. Now, I think I know.

This post is advice for early stage startup founders who are hiring their first engineer. At this stage traditional recruiting methods (e.g. hiring a recruiter) won't work as well for you as they do for larger companies.

To get an interview for a technical position, an engineer must run a screening gauntlet. The signals that go into every screening decision, however, are noisy. We can do better. And Bayesian statistics — updating probabilistic beliefs using evidence — can help.

We're excited to announce we've raised a $10 million Series A led by Initialized Capital with participation from our seed investors Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Emmett Shear, Kyle Vogt and Caffeinated Capital. We're also excited to welcome new investors Marissa Mayer and Xavier Niel to the round. We'll be using this investment to build on our momentum last year and help more great people find exciting new companies to join.

My co-worker Daniel is really into Emacs. It’s his primary editor, his grocery list (via org-mode), and #4 of the 6 things he can’t live without on his OkCupid profile. Other engineers in the office, however, prefer Vim (or Sublime Text, or even RubyMine). Naturally, this leads to war. But after months of salvos (VimGolf one-upmanship, gratuitous references to this Stack Overflow question) no clear victor has emerged.

So last week, I set out to see what the Triplebyte data has to say on the issue. Take this with a grain of salt (correlation does not imply causation), but there is a correlation between what editor an engineer uses, their language and OS, and their ability to pass programming interviews. And, according to our data, Vim users pass interviews at a rate ever-so-slightly higher than Emacs users!