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Guadalajara: Top City to Hire Software Engineers image

News & Events

03.15.2024

Guadalajara, Mexico is among several up-and-coming Latin American cities that are rising in our ranking of top cities to hire software engineers. Known as the Silicon Valley of Mexico, the city has attracted large tech companies, including Amazon, IBM, and Google, as well as startups. In fact, Jalisco, the state that Guadalajara is located in, […]

Resilient Futures: Nurturing Diverse Talent in the Age of AI image

News & Events

03.06.2024

The integration of generative AI (gen AI) into software engineering is fundamentally altering the dynamics of talent acquisition and career development across industries. This rapid transformation, powered by gen AI’s promise of productivity and cost-savings, calls for a nuanced examination of its impact, especially on diversity and inclusion within the tech sector. As we harness […]

DocuSign, Electronic Arts, Intuit, Snap, Uber, Unity, and Zillow Join Karat to Unlock Opportunities for Black Software Engineers image

News & Events

12.19.2023

SEATTLE – December 19, 2023 – Karat, the only end-to-end partner for technical hiring, today announced a significant expansion of its Brilliant Black Minds program with the introduction of seven new Partners of Brilliance: DocuSign, Electronic Arts, Intuit, Snap, Uber, Unity, and Zillow. This cohort of new Partners join the program’s inaugural members, Amazon Prime […]

Takeaways from my appearance in LeadDev’s webinar on hiring software engineers in 2023 image

Industry Trends & Research

10.04.2023

While the tech landscape continues to shift during this time of economic uncertainty, current conditions present a unique opportunity to revamp software engineering hiring strategies. I explored them with an incredible panel of technologists during a LeadDev Deep Dive Webinar about hiring engineers in 2023. The virtual event featured panel moderator Sonal Mehta, Director of […]

Webinar insights part 2: Harnessing the power of AI and the future of tech hiring image

Interview Insights

09.22.2023

As technology’s hiring landscape rapidly evolves, the pursuit of top talent is more competitive than ever before. To confidently hire the best tech professionals possible, talent acquisition (TA) leaders are using artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to transform how they source, evaluate, and hire.  Earlier this week, Scott Bonneau, Karat’s EVP of Product and Operations, […]

Karat Establishes Technical Advisory Board to Accelerate Expansion into the Enterprise image

News & Events

08.17.2023

Today, I am honored to announce the formation of Karat’s Technical Advisory Board – a group of ten senior leaders who recognize the significance of technical hiring in fueling digital transformation, creating the next big technological breakthrough, and breaking down barriers for underrepresented talent around the world.  With representatives from some of the world’s largest […]

Webinar insights: harnessing the power of genAI in tech hiring image

Industry Trends & Research

08.08.2023

The recent webinar, “Harnessing AI and the future of tech hiring,” featured an enlightening discussion about the future of generative AI, or genAI, in software development and engineering hiring. Moderated by Scott Bonneau, EVP of Product and Operations at Karat, the webinar brought together industry leaders Sagnik Nandy, CTO at Okta, and Eddie Zhou, Founding […]

Top takeaways from the best talks from LeadDev London 2023 image

News & Events

08.04.2023

Last month, I attended LeadDev’s flagship tech conference in London, and spoke about engineering an equitable hiring process. I’ve written about the overall conference experience, but there simply wasn’t room in my last post to include one major area of the conference: the talks themselves. There were so many talks with a kernel of something […]

Karat launches Qualify adaptive technical assessments to replace resume screens and code tests image

News & Events

08.01.2023

SEATTLE – Karat, the world’s largest interviewing company, today announced the launch of Karat Qualify, a top-of-funnel skills-assessment for organizations hiring software engineers. Qualify reimagines the concept of candidate screening using a short multiple-choice assessment to replace outdated resume screens and code tests. The highly approachable format creates a fair, candidate-friendly experience that produces faster […]

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