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SEATTLE, April 29, 2021/ — Karat, the world’s leader in technical interviewing, today announced that Built In has named Portia Kibble Smith, head of DEI at Karat, as a 2021 Built In Moxie Awards winner. This year, the program recognized 50 outstanding women in tech who have made outsized contributions to their places of work, […]

By: Portia Kibble Smith, Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Karat At Karat we believe interviews unlock opportunities and change lives. Today’s tech companies are creating the future. Every time a developer gets a job, they create a new opportunity for their company to create, grow, and innovate. And every time a developer gets a […]

SEATTLE, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Karat, the world leader in technical interviewing, today announced Brilliant Black Minds, a program to improve access, fairness, and inclusion across the technology industry. The program, which formalizes Karat’s commitment to providing Black software engineers with $1 million in practice interviews, kicked off last year and is growing to […]

Karat announced today that Werner Koepf has joined Karat as SVP of Engineering. Werner will lead Karat’s rapidly-growing engineering organization as the company increases investments in its products and Interview Engineering platform. Werner joined Senior Interview Engineer, Tyler Henderson, for a video Q&A as part of his onboarding. Watch the two discuss Werner’s background as […]

SEATTLE, October 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Karat, the industry standard for technical interviewing, today announced that Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is recognizing Karat co-founder, Mohit Bhende, as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2020 at its Builders + Innovators Summit. Goldman Sachs selected Mohit as one of 100 entrepreneurs from multiple industries to be […]

Last night I had the privilege of joining leaders from around the Seattle tech community at the 12th annual GeekWire Awards—the first one to ever be conducted virtually. It was great meeting the other nominees in our UX Design of the Year category, and congratulations to the team at Skilljar who won! We were honored […]

The Interview Gap manifests in different ways for different stakeholders. The Interview Gap makes it harder for organizations to reach their software engineering hiring targets. The Interview Gap places artificial constraints on the number of candidates that a company can interview, and limits the quality of those interviews. When interviewing isn’t given the time, structure, […]

One week into his new role, Bill Kramer, sat down with the Karat comms team to talk about accelerating growth, building the Karat brand, growing Interview Engineering as a category, and changing companies during a global pandemic. Gordie: Bill, welcome to Karat. Thank you for taking the time to dive right into a Q&A in […]

Is it 2021 yet? The first quarter of 2020 may feel like a COVID-colored blur, but the Karat team has been hard at work upgrading our website (including this shiny new remote interview blog!) and helping companies transition to 100% remote hiring. Our mission of making every interview predictive, fair and enjoyable motivates us to […]