[patothon]

10 years ago, I built chooseyourboss.com from scratch for a client of mine (with one of my best friends).

Our principles at the time were very similar to what Triplebyte is trying to do now: give power back to developers.

We build a version of "hired" (did they die?) before "hired" even exist. A matching platform that was matching people with companies that was sharing both their desires and values. Small/big company. Consulting/Product company. How much $$ do you want? What technologies you're interested in? Where do you want to work? All of this anonymously of course.

It was all fine and dandy, the company actually still exists and generates revenue, but I'm overall very bearish on the recruiting space.

It's a sales game. It's a numbers game. And on top of this the people top companies REALLY want to hire aren't hanging out in these recruiting platforms. So as a platform you're only feeding average/average low candidates to companies, and in the meantime, companies that have in house or externalized sourcing resources get better results by going over linkedin and their employees network.

It then becomes a financial game for companies.

And platforms that are not linkeding rarely win.

[Aeolun]

My problem with these platforms is that I never end up ‘matching’ with any companies because almost without exception their ethos is ‘cheap and fast’. The only way to change that is from the inside.

[granshaw]

Very insightful comment that I wish was higher up. The devs complaining here don’t know how tough a nut to crack it is to build a truly applicant-centric platform profitably.