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At Triplebyte we're currently looking for experienced iOS engineers to be remote interviewers, who help us evaluate other iOS applicants. It's not exactly your rate, but we pay $200 per 2-hour technical interview, and it's fully remote and flexible (after two weeks of training at our office in San Francisco). If you're interested you can apply here: https://triplebyte.com/remote_interviewer

Edit: a few advantages compared to or when combined with traditional contracting. First you can throttle up or down as you wish -- do 1 interview a day or 4. Second is once you've finished grading an interview, you've finished -- no remaining to-do tasks. Third is you don't have to go out and find work -- we fill your interview slots. You also get to help smart people from all over the world make life-changing career leaps, which is pretty exciting.

Edit 2: contact peter@triplebyte.com -- Peter runs our remote interviewer team and can give you more details.

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"after two weeks of training at our office in San Francisco"

If you're happy to share, I'd love to know what you cover in those two weeks. Most companies spend more like 4 to 8 hours (5%-10% of your 80 hours) training new hires on how to interview.

Sure. It's a mix of:

* technical topics (review to substantial depth on every topic we cover)

* interview management (being friendly and helping candidates get through as much as they can in the time allotted)

* grading calibration (so all of our interviewers give repeatable, consistent scores on every dimension of our rubric)

* a lot of practice (mock interviews with other interviewers, taking over one section at a time from existing interviews, eventually flying solo)

Thanks for sharing!

And, BTW, I took your initial online test just for fun+research. I really liked the mix of question types. And it was clear a lot of thought went into picking the answers for the multiple choice questions: apart from the best answer, there were answers that were way off base, but also 1-2 that sounded plausible to someone who had some knowledge of the topic.

EDIT:

One more thing: On the page that describes the process (https://triplebyte.com/company_faq_learn_more) it says there are two steps:

- Quiz (10% pass rate)

- Technical Interview (30% pass rate for those who passed the quiz)

But when I tried the process, I saw 3 steps:

- Programming Questions (i.e. the quiz I mentioned I tried)

- Programming Problems (it says it will take 30 mins, and I haven't tried yet)

- Technical Interview

Interesting… let me see if I am getting this right. After the San Francisco part, am I a Triplebyte employee or I am a contractor? If the former, do I get a set salary or I am only getting commissions for each interview I actually conduct? If the latter, contractor, can I still do my own work or other commitments/jobs whilst doing interviews when I can?

Contractor, paid per interview. Yes -- as far as I know, basically all of our remote interviewers are doing either contract software development or working on their own projects / startups in addition to doing interviews for us.

Sounds interesting.

>> after two weeks of training at our office in San Francisco

Do you cover the cost of 2 weeks of stay in San Francisco?

Yes.

Edit: I double-checked. A training stipend is paid for all interviewers. Additionally, if you're from out-of-town, we cover travel and lodging.

Thanks for checking.

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