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Featured Blog | Global Hiring
08.19.2024
Attracting Engineering Talent in India: 4 Tips From Talent Leaders
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 […]
Featured Blog | Global Hiring
08.12.2024
4 Top Challenges in Global Hiring and How to Overcome Them
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 […]
Featured Blog | AI Hiring
08.02.2024
Why AI Won’t Replace Software Engineers
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 […]
Featured Blog | Interviewing Tips
08.02.2024
3 Ways to Make Your Interview Process More Effective
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 […]
Featured Blog | Inclusive Hiring
07.22.2024
Creating an Inclusive Candidate Experience for Diverse Engineering Talent
In today’s world, fostering diversity in recruitment is important for businesses. Diverse teams create different perspectives, bring innovative ideas, and have much better problem-solving capabilities. The goal here is to make sure that every candidate is valued regardless of their background, and there are a few steps you need to follow to make this happen. […]
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Industry Trends & Research
07.07.2020
Last month we shared a number of programs as part of our commitment to Black software engineers. One of these initiatives is to use our interview data and research to develop new formats that reduce bias. Today’s research shows that the emphasis code tests place on absolute completeness and correctness is failing to produce a […]
Industry Trends & Research
06.30.2020
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, […]
Industry Trends & Research
05.21.2020
A few weeks ago we connected with Claus Moberg, Roblox’s VP of Engineering, to get his thoughts on the state of hiring software engineers. One theme that came up is the impact of false positives. He noted that live first-round technical interviews showed “…a dramatic improvement over [code tests] and our own emailed questions. Without […]
Interview Insights
05.19.2020
By, Adam Dangoor As a candidate, some of the least enjoyable interview experiences I have had are those after which I felt that I did not get across what I could bring to the team. The interviewer didn’t walk away knowing what I could do, only what I could not do. Software engineering is such […]
Inside Karat
05.14.2020
Data modeling is awesome. Or hard. It depends on the day of the week. Any engineer at a startup will attest your data models are probably evolving faster than your code. We’re always riding the bike as we try to build it. I’ve shared some PR-approved quotes about the engineering culture at Karat, but they […]
Interview Insights
05.12.2020
Interviewing is stressful enough without having to contend with WFH distractions, bad lighting, spotty WiFi, and a bunch of job candidates who are in the exact same boat heading into your remote interviews. “You’re not hiring a file or a folder, you’re hiring a person. Code comes from people.” – Brian Holland, Karat Interview Engineer […]
Interview Insights
05.07.2020
The following article originally appeared on Forbes.com under the headline, Remote Interviewing: How To Evaluate Competencies that Matter. For more Interview Engineering resources, check out our white papers on Creating a Structured Rubric, Going Virtual, and Engineering the Technical Interview. By Mohit Bhende Last month I outlined six ways to tune technical interview loops for 100% remote hiring. […]
Inside Karat
04.30.2020
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 […]
Interview Insights
04.28.2020
You did all this work to recruit, interview, and hire an amazing new teammate. Let’s keep this party popping! HR and IT have just completed the remote onboarding of your new engineer. Now it’s your turn. The only catch is that you and your team cannot interact with the new engineer in any way, except […]