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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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Global Hiring
03.12.2025
Top Nearshore Software Hubs in Europe and Americas 1. Belgrade, Serbia - ranked #2 in Europe, #9 globally 2. Gdansk, Poland - #3 in Europe, #12 globally 3. Sofia, Bulgaria - #4 in Europe, #18 globally 4. Warsaw, Poland - #5 in Europe, #20 globally 5. Sao Paulo, Brazil - #1 in LATAM, #38 globally
Industry Trends & Research
03.05.2025
GCCs are flocking to Bangalore and attracting more of India's elite software engineers. Learn more about what is drawing top employers and engineers to the city.
Industry Trends & Research
02.26.2025
The latest tech hiring trends are showing a significant tech talent migration. Historically, elite software engineers have been concentrated in three U.S. tech hubs; San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. According to Karat’s 2025 Top Cities to Hire Software Engineers report, which is based on data from over 500,000 technical interviews, those traditional strongholds of […]
Brilliant Black Minds
02.04.2025
We created Brilliant Black Minds in 2020 with a clear purpose: to address the disparities in access to resources, mentorship, and interview preparation that limit career opportunities for Black software engineers. Our Interview Access Gap Report revealed the critical need for dedicated support to help Black engineers strengthen their technical interviewing skills, build confidence, and […]
News & Events
01.16.2025
SEATTLE, WA — Karat, the definitive partner for measuring and elevating technical talent, today announced the acquisition of Byteboard, a skills-based technical assessment solution. This acquisition is Karat’s third over the last two years and accelerates the company’s efforts to build next-generation solutions for organizations that are prioritizing the quality of every new hire in […]
AI Hiring
11.21.2024
Recent advancements in generative AI (GenAI) have made it possible for AI to perform some of the same tasks that software engineers do. Many believe that AI will decrease the need for software engineers as a result. Karat’s 2024 Tech Hiring Trends surveyed software engineering leaders and found the opposite is happening — engineers are […]
Industry Trends & Research
11.12.2024
The technical hiring process for software engineers is notoriously long, with multiple stages, people, and tools used to manage it all. While this can lead to inefficiencies and a frustrating process for everyone involved, Karat’s 2024 Tech Hiring Trends report found that software engineering leaders are centralizing their hiring processes in response to a changing […]
Global Hiring
11.04.2024
Tech hiring over the last two years has been plagued with mass layoffs and uncertainty. It looks like things are turning around though, as sentiment around technical hiring is rebounding in 2024. Karat’s Tech Hiring Trends report surveys software engineering leaders to uncover how hiring is changing each year and the practices of the most […]
Interview Insights
10.21.2024
When companies are rapidly growing, they prioritize hiring speed and volume, but it’s often at the expense of candidate quality and the candidate experience. Atlassian found itself in this situation when it needed to quickly grow its engineering teams. As a global company that cares about providing a positive, fair experience to every candidate and […]