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Featured Blog | Global Hiring
08.19.2024
Attracting Engineering Talent in India: 4 Tips From Talent Leaders
India has become a leader in great engineering talent, causing more companies to flock there and open Global Capability Centers (GCCs). As a result, the market for software engineers there is now highly competitive for all types of organizations, including corporations, startups, companies with an established presence in India, and those that are entering India […]
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
01.31.2023
Recent market volatility and tech layoffs have created a unique landscape for companies hiring top tech talent. Industries that were previously the top choices for job-seeking software engineers have been hit hard; while large enterprise non-tech companies have become increasingly desirable destinations. This has resulted in a discernible shift in the job market and a […]
Interview Insights
01.24.2023
Congratulations! You’ve been invited to take a Karat interview. This likely means that a prospective employer has reviewed your application and resume, conducted a recruiter screen, and selected you from the pool of applicants to move forward in the technical hiring process. The next step –whether you’re interviewing with Karat or another company – will […]
Inside Karat
01.13.2023
Last year, Karat hired Crystal Moore to run Brilliant Black Minds, Karat’s initiative to help double the number of Black engineers in tech. Martin Luther King Jr. has come up more than once in my conversations with Crystal, and I thought sending her a few questions about what the means for her and her work […]
Industry Trends & Research
01.05.2023
Last month, Karat’s data and insights team ranked the top cities in the U.S. for technical hiring. These rankings covered the metro areas with the highest concentrations of software developers scoring in the top quartile of all global coding scores in technical interviews. Unsurprisingly, the greater Seattle Area and San Francisco Bay Area (including Silicon […]
News & Events
12.14.2022
Karat today announced the hiring of two executives who will help scale the company. Scott Bonneau will join as Executive Vice President of Product and Operations, and Amy Sennett will join as General Counsel. Most recently, Scott was VP of Talent Attraction and Data Analytics at Indeed. He spent five years at Indeed–also serving as […]
Industry Trends & Research
12.13.2022
While many companies use automated coding tests as the first step of their software engineering interview, recent developments in generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) will challenge this entire system. On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released a research version of their new AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT. This chatbot has the ability not only to answer users’ questions but […]
Industry Trends & Research
12.08.2022
2022 represented a shift in the tech hiring landscape. Tech layoffs and hiring freezes produced an influx of high-performing software developers on the market. Talented engineers started to prioritize the security of larger enterprises over the hypergrowth segments, driving up close rates in industries like financial services, insurance, and telecom. And despite high-profile return-to-office mandates, […]
Industry Trends & Research
12.06.2022
As we round out 2022, I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting on the state of the tech industry and hiring landscape. The second half of the year has been tough for the tech industry, due to increasing layoffs and broader economic concerns. However, I see signs of hope. There are many positive trends that […]
Candidate Resources
11.30.2022
It’s 2022, you’re a software engineer, and you’re looking for technical work. If this describes you, you’re not alone. The good news is that openings in tech still exist. However, there’s one big step between today’s you and the you who is building interesting things and getting paid for it: you need to get hired […]