TripleByte worked amazingly well for me. I even use my TripleByte backpack every day on my way to work.
Back in 2018 I was a new grad in Pennsylvania trying to move to the Bay Area. Attempting the process of interviewing, scheduling everything so I can fly out and do on-sites, booking a hotel in a new city for the first time etc. would have been overwhelming. But the whole process was taken care of for me. I got 5 interviews scheduled across Monday through Friday. The hotel was paid for. Uber rides to and from offices were paid for. My flight was paid for. I ended the week with 2 offers. I got them to fight over me and then picked the job with the clearly superior work culture.
Since then I've worked at seed stage companies, Google, and moved around the bay a bit. It would have been possible without TripleByte, but the value prop as a candidate was tremendous. The employer I joined continued to use TripleByte, almost exclusively, until we got an in-house recruiter. Even then we still used it as a solid side channel. I think 3 or 4 of the engineers that joined were TripleByte candidates. They really were excellent at digging up people who wouldn't have seemed like the right pick just given a resume, but in fact were perfect fits once settled in.
The only problem, now that I've got some experience under my belt, is that my professional network makes something like TripleByte unnecessary (unless I move to a new area, in which case I could use help finding a good job). But once we're hiring some full stack web devs at work I'll take a serious look at OtherBranch.
Back in 2018 I was a new grad in Pennsylvania trying to move to the Bay Area. Attempting the process of interviewing, scheduling everything so I can fly out and do on-sites, booking a hotel in a new city for the first time etc. would have been overwhelming. But the whole process was taken care of for me. I got 5 interviews scheduled across Monday through Friday. The hotel was paid for. Uber rides to and from offices were paid for. My flight was paid for. I ended the week with 2 offers. I got them to fight over me and then picked the job with the clearly superior work culture.
Since then I've worked at seed stage companies, Google, and moved around the bay a bit. It would have been possible without TripleByte, but the value prop as a candidate was tremendous. The employer I joined continued to use TripleByte, almost exclusively, until we got an in-house recruiter. Even then we still used it as a solid side channel. I think 3 or 4 of the engineers that joined were TripleByte candidates. They really were excellent at digging up people who wouldn't have seemed like the right pick just given a resume, but in fact were perfect fits once settled in.
The only problem, now that I've got some experience under my belt, is that my professional network makes something like TripleByte unnecessary (unless I move to a new area, in which case I could use help finding a good job). But once we're hiring some full stack web devs at work I'll take a serious look at OtherBranch.