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Featured Blog | News & Events
08.21.2025
Karat Launches Partner Talent Solution to Elevate Contractor Engineering Quality
“Managing contractor quality has always been a challenge, especially when you don’t have a consistent standard and industry benchmarks,” said Michael Ruttledge, Chief Information Officer and Head of Enterprise Technology & Security at Citizens Bank. “Karat’s trusted third-party standard ensures contractors meet our bar, helps IT Service Providers build trust faster, and gives us invaluable performance insurance.”
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
09.14.2018
Our recent Karat summer offsite started off with seemingly innocuous ice-breakers: If you could have any superpower what would it be? Who is your hero and why? What was your earliest memory of the internet? In response to the last question, one of our engineering interns, Sabrina, paused briefly before telling me matter-of-factly that she did not […]
Industry Trends & Research
09.04.2018
A 2017 PwC study showed that 77% of HR directors felt that failure to hire tech talent would be a threat to their business. Any recruiter or hiring manager will tell you: software engineering roles are painfully difficult to fill. The demand for this skillset shows no signs of slowing and the supply shows no signs of […]
Interview Insights
08.31.2018
Employers and candidates have been interviewing for millennia. During these years jobs have changed, industries have been created and they’ve evolved. Yet, one thing remains the same: Interviewing has always been awful. Luckily, Interview Engineering can help. Interviewing and finding the right job is hugely important. Next to our spouses and families, we spend massive […]
News & Events
08.03.2018
On August 2nd, over 100 tech leaders, innovators, and talent acquisition experts gathered in New York for our third Real Talk: Diversity in Tech. Our partners The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Indeed, and Convene sponsored the event along with us to reveal the real experiences of underrepresented minorities as they’ve built their careers in technology. The Karat team created the Real Talk event series early […]