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The technical hiring process for software engineers is notoriously long, with multiple stages, people, and tools used to manage it all. While this can lead to inefficiencies and a frustrating process for everyone involved, Karat’s 2024 Tech Hiring Trends report found that software engineering leaders are centralizing their hiring processes in response to a changing […]

Tech hiring over the last two years has been plagued with mass layoffs and uncertainty. It looks like things are turning around though, as sentiment around technical hiring is rebounding in 2024.  Karat’s Tech Hiring Trends report surveys software engineering leaders to uncover how hiring is changing each year and the practices of the most […]

When companies are rapidly growing, they prioritize hiring speed and volume, but it’s often at the expense of candidate quality and the candidate experience. Atlassian found itself in this situation when it needed to quickly grow its engineering teams. As a global company that cares about providing a positive, fair experience to every candidate and […]

While Atlassian already had a standardized hiring process, it was going through a large growth phase and needed to rapidly grow the core engineering teams, which were made up of back-end, front-end, and full-stack engineers. To achieve this, they focused on hiring efficiency and volume.  “[W]hile efficiency is a really key priority, often that can […]

AvidXchange’s interview process was too long and inconsistent, causing them to lose candidates. Without any standards for interview questions, interviewers asked different questions and the Talent Acquisition team didn’t know what interviewers were asking candidates. Additionally, every interview involved two technical engineers. Since AvidXchange was aiming to hire 80 to 100 engineers a year, interviewing […]

India has become a leader in great engineering talent, causing more companies to flock there and open Global Capability Centers (GCCs). As a result, the market for software engineers there is now highly competitive for all types of organizations, including corporations, startups, companies with an established presence in India, and those that are entering India […]

Global companies have access to a larger talent pool and they’re able to reduce costs by hiring in areas with a lower cost of living. While these are some of the benefits that make global hiring advantageous, there are also challenges that come with hiring internationally. Organizations need to navigate the unique characteristics of each […]

AI’s ability to do what humans can do has drastically expanded over the last few years. As AI becomes more powerful, there are more and more questions about whether AI is able to replace workers and to what extent. For software engineers, generative AI can already write code and documentation, generate test cases and automate […]

Interviews are incredibly important for hiring the most qualified candidate, as they’re the main method of evaluating candidates and narrowing down your pool of applicants to just one person. Good interviews are predictive, fair, and enjoyable, and achieving this requires carefully and scientifically designing your interview process.  There are many ways to improve your interview […]