[tomtheelder]

Also there is no guarantee that an engineer who passes the interview will end up getting a job through the platform (speaking from experience).

I'd guess a very large portion of that 40% just end up getting a job the old fashioned way.

[dikaiosune]

AFAIK when most recruiters talk about placement rate, they're not talking about "engineers who we worked with who happened to get jobs," they're talking about "engineers who we placed and received payment for the placement." While Triplebyte hasn't explicitly stated that distinction here, I think a good faith reading of that phrase would suggest that the 40% is actually people who are getting jobs through Triplebyte.