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News & Events

03.02.2021

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 […]

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News & Events

03.02.2021

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 […]

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Success Stories

02.22.2021

A little more than three hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin established the Philadelphia Contributionship, effectively inventing property insurance. A crucial part of the business was the inspection, which considered construction standards, living practices, and building materials. This allowed the company to set rates based on their risk assessment. That may seem like a far cry […]

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Recruiting Insights

02.18.2021

Like everything else, 2020 upended the developer hiring landscape. The unexpected shift in developer hiring trends created an influx of strong candidates. The transition to virtual hiring made us all adapt and innovate. Last week, Karat invited four technical recruiting experts to talk about the aftermath of 2020 and how to hire developers in 2021 […]

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Industry Trends & Research

02.05.2021

Last year the world shrunk. Not just in terms of being confined to our apartments, but also with regard to accessing a global talent pipeline of remote software engineers. One silver-lining of 2020 was that it became easier for engineering leaders in tight talent markets to say goodbye to geographic hiring constraints and hello to […]

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Industry Trends & Research

01.29.2021

To say that 2020 changed the world would be the understatement of the century. The COVID-19 pandemic changed lives, businesses, countries, and economies at a scale never before seen in our lifetimes. Some tech companies flourished in the suddenly-digital world, while others paused to feel out the uncertainty, which had a profound impact on developer […]

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Inside Karat

01.26.2021

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Recruiting Insights

12.16.2020

The shift to remote work is going to be one of the most significant and lasting transformations of the next several decades. While some companies are walking back their commitments to flexibility, others like Twitter, Slack, and Affirm are keeping options open. People who work from home are more productive, take fewer sick days, and […]

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News & Events

11.25.2020

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 […]

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