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Featured Blog | Interview Insights
02.05.2026
Human + AI technical interview rubrics
Executive summary Five years ago, Karat published a resource on how to create structured scoring rubrics for technical interviews. That article remains one of our most-viewed and most-searched web pages. There are several reasons CIOs and CTOs keep coming back to this content. Rubrics put candidates on a level playing field, allowing leaders to review […]

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
04.29.2024
The tech industry in Dublin, the capital and largest city of Ireland, has come a long way since IBM became the first U.S. tech company to set up an office there in 1956. It’s now one of Europe’s leading tech hubs, and our report on the 2024 top cities to hire software engineers found that […]

Global Hiring
04.22.2024
There’s currently a lot of momentum and interest in hiring software engineers from Latin America — particularly Mexico City, Guadalajara, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires. We expect these cities, along with others throughout Latin America, to continue growing and eventually become some of the top cities to hire software engineers. This presents an opportunity for […]

Global Hiring
04.15.2024
With over six million software engineers, India is one of the largest pools of tech talent in the world. In addition to being home to nearly a quarter of the world’s developers, India also boasts some of the highest concentrations of top engineering talent. Six Indian cities made our list of the top cities to […]

Interviewing Tips
04.10.2024
When hiring any employee, it’s customary to evaluate them to make sure they’ll be successful in the role and be a good fit for your company. The hiring process usually includes reviewing the candidate’s resume and interviewing them. For technical roles, such as engineering, data science, and security, candidates need to complete technical interviews that […]

Global Hiring
04.09.2024
In our 2024 ranking of the top cities to hire software engineers, Seattle ranks at the top of the list based on its concentration of strong software engineers. The city also ranked third in the world, and first in the U.S. based on its concentration of elite engineering talent. With Microsoft and Amazon headquartered in […]

Brilliant Black Minds
04.02.2024
We are proud to present Karat’s inaugural Brilliant Black Minds Annual Community Report! This update is both a reflection of the tremendous progress we’ve made over the past year and a celebration of how our community has come together to break down barriers, foster brilliance, and unlock opportunities. Reflecting back, we have some wonderful success […]

Industry Trends & Research
04.01.2024
Last week, I had the opportunity to lead a session at Consero’s Talent Acquisition Management Forum in Irving, Texas. It was an engaging discussion with talent acquisition leaders about various trends in the technology industry, including the direct impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) and global hiring strategies are having on today’s talent landscape. Here are a […]

Technical Recruiting
03.21.2024
Nearly every company needs technical employees to help them build products and services, maintain their technology and infrastructure, and make use of their data. Technical recruiting is the process of finding and hiring these people, and technical recruiters are the ones who typically do so. While technical recruiting is a necessity if you want to […]

Global Hiring
03.15.2024
Guadalajara, Mexico is among several up-and-coming Latin American cities that are rising in our ranking of top cities to hire software engineers. Known as the Silicon Valley of Mexico, the city has attracted large tech companies, including Amazon, IBM, and Google, as well as startups. In fact, Jalisco, the state that Guadalajara is located in, […]