[mettamage]

> We’re trying to create a marketplace that can open opportunities for engineers who wouldn’t otherwise have them

Provided they're in the US. My experience as a European has been: more or less everything I apply to ignores my application. I haven't checked recently, is it changing?

I'm not implying you're wrong since you used the word trying to create. Moreover, you didn't specifically specify which group of engineers you're trying to create opportunities for. I don't even want to go in a right or wrong type of frame, because it doesn't matter, but my lack of eloquence might give that impression.

What I am implying is that the statement is a bit broad. On a more emotional (perhaps even non-rational) note: I feel spoken to yet left out, for years now.

[ammon]

Most employers on Triplebyte (90%) are hiring in the US currently. However, we're working on something that us going to change that (announcement coming soon).

[pcthrowaway]

As a Canadian, it seemed like at least 30% of remote employers were open to hiring from Canada (although it was often marked incorrectly in your system).

At the very least, a couple of U.S. companies with remote positions that claimed to be U.S. only (or "work authorization required?"), reached out to me.

[soco]

Did they actually check your location or reached out randomly? Or, were they expecting you to relocate? I'm located in Switzerland and get often such bogus messages from German companies (although not on Triplebyte but I assume the bad habits are universal).

[pcthrowaway]

I think 2 companies reached out to me that said U.S. only in the job descriptions.

But I think some companies select U.S. only because Americans tend forget about other countries where people may be in the same time zone.

It's possible German companies are reluctant to engage with a Swiss person because German salaries are lower than what I understand Swiss salaries to be (German CoL is also much lower though)

[rachofsunshine]

> My experience as a European has been: more or less everything I apply to ignores my application. I haven't checked recently, is it changing?

We actually just (like, two days ago) shipped a change to be more restrictive about how we show jobs based on location. And we have a few things in the works (unfortunately I can't share details) that might result in significant increases in activity for engineers outside the US.

> Moreover, you didn't specifically specify which group of engineers you're trying to create opportunities for.

The simplest way to put this is "we want engineers who can do the job to be able to get hired". That is obviously a pie-in-the-sky goal that is more aspirational than anything else (you're never going to bat 1.000), but it's the guiding principle.

In a more on-the-ground sense, we think our assessments allow engineers who do well on them to get company attention that they might not otherwise get. And we have hard data to suggest that we are correct. Each assessment with a score of 3 or higher on an application roughly doubles the chance that that application is accepted, for example, and the overwhelming majority of outbound messages on Triplebyte go to engineers with at least one such score on their profile.