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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
03.16.2023
SEATTLE, WA – Karat, the world’s largest interviewing company, today announced the acquisition of Triplebyte’s technical assessment product and team. The acquisition adds a unique top-of-funnel, skills-based assessment to Karat’s suite of Interviewing Cloud offerings, helping organizations identify and hire the best tech talent faster, more accurately, and fairly. The ability to quickly make confident […]

News & Events
03.09.2023
Karat today announced the addition of two executives to its leadership team – roles that will enable the company to grow further into the enterprise and continue engagement of developers. Dan Haroldsen is joining as VP of Marketing, and Marcus Taylor has been promoted to VP of Americas Enterprise Sales. Most recently, Dan led marketing […]

Interview Insights
03.02.2023
Google: What are Karat interview questions? Chances are, if you’ve taken a Karat interview, you’ve run a search like the example above. In fact, most candidates interviewing at any company will have scoured Leetcode, Reddit, Blind, Glassdoor, and other sites for clues on what questions they might be asked throughout the technical hiring process. At […]

Candidate Resources
02.28.2023
We celebrate Black Brilliance throughout the year, but this month has been exceptionally special for us as we have highlighted Black leaders and candidates within the Karat community. Rounding up Black History Month, we’d love to shed more context on a few candidates who landed job opportunities through Brilliant Black Minds. Yosief Kidane, Isaiah Smith, and Victor Pimentel […]

Interview Insights
02.21.2023
Work culture plays a huge role in employee satisfaction, collaboration, and productivity, and assessing whether a candidate is a culture fit is an important aspect of the interview process. Unfortunately, culture is a tricky concept to nail down, and developing questions that probe culture fit is difficult. I recently sat down with Peter Bell at […]
Recruiting Insights
02.16.2023
In today’s job market, the hiring landscape varies greatly across industries. While some are capitalizing on the surplus of software engineering talent from recent tech layoffs and hiring top talent at an accelerated pace, others are proceeding with caution. For those in the latter group who are taking a more measured approach, this article provides […]

Recruiting Insights
02.14.2023
It’s easy to understand the value of a data-driven recruitment process. However, it’s not always clear precisely which hiring metrics to track. For example, in our most recent tech hiring trends report, we asked talent and engineering leaders which metrics they use to evaluate software engineer candidates at their organizations. Read Karat’s Tech Hiring Trends […]

Industry Trends & Research
02.09.2023
ChatGPT’s original demos included some tantalizing examples of the model producing Python code from a simple natural language prompt. Since those initial examples, we’ve received many questions about what this means for technical interviews like the ones we conduct. Most commonly, we hear candidates ask, “Can I use ChatGPT in my interview?” But I think […]

Industry Trends & Research
02.09.2023