He got 14 interviews from 54 companies. As a candidate, that's better than what you can expect from Triplebyte, which apparently only interviews 1/6th of applicants (2000 interviewed out of the 12000 who have applied).
If you don't make it to the interview phase with Triplebyte, then the process might as well be as opaque to you as any company. You aren't given much information about how well you tested and the reason you weren't selected to interview.
It would be great if there were a Triplebyte-like service for those of us in the lower 10,000, but until then it's back to applying to dozens of companies.
14 interviews from 54 companies is downright amazing. Better than I've ever seen. I've probably applied to hundreds of companies throughout my life/career and gained interviews at less than 20. Next time I'm looking for a job, 54 companies is going to be the minimum to apply to.
We suffer from adverse selection bias (as does any online job application). Many companies don't even hire from their online applications for this reason (instead using referrals). The truth is that almost all of the people we don't interview would not have passed (we have a small control group that we always interview, to measure our false negative rate). We do certainly make mistakes (our false negative rate is not 0). But I am proud of our process. It's more open than any other interview I know of. We routinely find awesome self-taught programmers who no other company would interview.
http://blog.triplebyte.com/12-000-engineers-evaluated
If you don't make it to the interview phase with Triplebyte, then the process might as well be as opaque to you as any company. You aren't given much information about how well you tested and the reason you weren't selected to interview.
It would be great if there were a Triplebyte-like service for those of us in the lower 10,000, but until then it's back to applying to dozens of companies.