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Official Bluesky account for Otherbranch (www.otherbranch.com). We're an ex-Triplebyte team making technical recruiting more fair, less stupid.
(addendum, 5/4) We're OK with the weaker web/deep correlations, those sections are broader and test a couple different things (and they ARE predictive of the section-wise score).
May 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Overall, we're very happy with this. There's things to work on, but when your qualitative judgments produce such nice quantitative values, that's a good sign. (4/4)
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Bad things:

- The third algos question is weak (yellow within block, w/algos section, and with overall). We should probably change that. Web q's OK, could be better.

- Coding correlating more with comms than conceptual question is odd. Comms are anchoring a bit too strongly on sys design. (3/4)
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Good things in this data:

- Mid-high correlation within sections. Means diff questions in each section are getting @ same skill.

- Low-mid correlation between sections. You'd expect some general factor (hence the ~0.2-0.4 all over), but you want each section to test different things. (2/4)
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The only reason tech was ever different was that skilled workers had labor power. Post-ZIRP/2022-2023 downturn, workers stopped having excess labor power, and labor conditions reverted to the mean.

Tech mistook labor extracting concessions for a principled difference in management styles.
April 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Apologies for the slow reply - CEO here and I'd been sick for a bit so I got behind on my socials. Possibly down the line, but not for a while.
February 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Can't imagine why /s
November 14, 2024 at 3:08 AM
You must first assemble the Kernel of the Silver Monkey...
September 25, 2024 at 10:27 PM
To be fair you put "looking for a job" in your username, you can't just expect us NOT to cram your inbox. (This is a joke please do not hurt us we're just trying to be witty on the internet)
September 20, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Interviewer: "okay but why didn't you select 50000? We really want to see you going above and beyond here."
August 28, 2024 at 8:02 PM