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Featured Blog | AI Hiring
12.17.2025
The human + AI workforce transformation is here. Is your hiring process ready?
Download the full 2025–2026 AI Workforce Transformation Report → https://karat.com/resource/ai-workforce-transformation-report/ AI is transforming software development faster than most organizations can adapt. Engineering productivity is accelerating, the ROI of strong engineers is increasing, and AI-native workflows are reshaping how teams build software. But, while engineering has moved into the human + AI era, most hiring practices […]
Featured Blog | AI Hiring
12.10.2025
Introducing Karat NextGen: human-led, AI-enabled interviews
Karat NextGen mirrors how modern engineers work, empowering engineering executives to build a high-quality, AI-ready workforce SEATTLE — [December 10, 2025] — Karat, the trusted standard for measuring talent quality, today announced the launch of Karat NextGen, the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution to identify software engineers who will excel in the human + […]
Featured Blog | AI Hiring
12.09.2025
Contract Engineer Quality in Financial Services
Financial services (FinServ) organizations are increasingly relying on contract engineers. They’re among the top five industries driving outsourcing demand, and the European Central Bank found that banks increased their budget for information and communication technology services by an average of 2.1% from 2023 to 2024. Outsourcing provides access to specialized talent, as our data shows […]
Featured Blog | AI Hiring
11.21.2025
FinServ Contractor Trends in the AI Era
AI is transforming the financial services (FinServ) industry, from trading to digital banking and fraud detection. As demand for digital innovation increases, FinServ organizations are increasingly relying on contractors and IT Service Providers (ITSPs) to deliver rapid progress while minimizing risk. Their expectations are rising at the same time, as engineering teams need to meet […]
Featured Blog | AI Hiring
03.25.2025
AI in Interviews: Cheating or the New Normal?
While interviewing in the age of AI has been a hot topic since the first iteration of ChatGPT, Amazon’s recent crackdown on candidates using AI in interviews has brought the long-simmering topic to the forefront. The use of AI in interviews has come up in almost all of our executive briefings this year. Increasingly, the […]
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News & Events
10.05.2018
On October 2nd, more than 200 talent acquisition, HR, and D&I leaders gathered in New York City for Indeed Explore. The theme of the event was the “Search for Greatness.” This is particularly relevant as many companies are starting to remove tangible barriers to great careers and career growth — such as the college degree requirement which […]
Inside Karat
09.25.2018
“The software developer job interview doesn’t work. Companies should stop relying on them. The savviest teams will outcompete their peers by devising alternative hiring schemes.” — Thomas Ptacek, founder of Matasano Security and writer for Krebs on Security Our data indicates that Mr. Ptacek is right — the typical technical interview and hiring process fails to get […]
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 […]