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Financial services engineering leaders are tasked with modernizing legacy systems, shipping new digital products, and navigating an AI revolution – all while competing with big tech and fast-growing startups for increasingly scarce engineering talent. To better understand where FinServ engineering leaders are feeling the most pressure, Karat analyzed data from 303 CTOs, CIOs, VPs of […]

Google: What are Karat interview questions? Chances are, if you’ve taken a Karat interview, you’ve run a search like the example above. In fact, most candidates interviewing at any company will have scoured Leetcode, Reddit, Blind, Glassdoor, and other sites for clues on what questions they might be asked throughout the technical hiring process. At […]

Money20/20 Europe Recap (2026): Can you assess how engineers use AI credits? Agentic excitement, governance and more.

CTOs, CIOs, and VPs of Engineering are under pressure. They’re being asked to scale AI-ready teams faster, modernize aging infrastructure, and do both with tighter budgets. Where you hire is now an important strategy, rather than just a recruiting decision. For years, hiring was concentrated in coastal cities. Now, AI transformation is reshaping the U.S. […]

London is Europe’s largest market for software engineering talent and one of the world’s most significant hubs for enterprise technology. In Karat’s 2026 Top Cities for Engineering Talent report, London jumped up 14 spots from last year to rank 16th globally. In Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), London comes in second for elite […]

[This article was originally published in 2020, but has been updated to reflect the evolution of interviewing and what Karat technical interviews measure in the human + AI era.] Going back to the early days of Karat, reviewing candidate feedback has been one of the most important ways we gauge the consistency, accuracy, and fairness […]

Bangalore isn’t just India’s best market for software engineering talent. It’s one of the most important engineering hubs in the world. In Karat’s 2026 Top Cities for Engineering Talent report, it ranks #1 in India and #9 globally, with 27.3% of candidates performing in the top quartile worldwide. It also has the largest software engineering […]

San Francisco and the larger Bay Area have long been the world’s most iconic engineering market. While many headlines over the last few years have reported on companies and tech workers leaving California for lower-cost markets like Texas, our data shows that San Francisco remains one of the world’s most concentrated and competitive markets for […]

What building and running the first human-led, AI-enabled technical interview system actually looks like When we launched Karat NextGen late last year, we had a clear thesis: the way companies evaluate engineering talent hadn’t kept pace with how software is actually built. AI tools had changed the job, but interviews were still designed for a […]