UNIVERSITY RECRUITING
Technical interviews for University Recruiting
Karat partners with your University Recruiting and engineering teams to ensure each season meets hiring goals faster than the last. Our team aligns code challenges and technical interviews to your hiring bar, measures and optimizes the hiring funnel, and identifies previously overlooked pools of talent.


Gain a competitive advantage in University Recruiting
University Recruiting is an effective way to hire diverse, highly capable software engineering talent. It’s limited time frame means it’s also highly competitive.
Karat works with your team to set up key competitive advantages including increased technical interviewing bandwidth, establishing a global hiring bar, and setting milestones for interview completion throughout the season — ensuring you meet your hiring goals.
“Karat has allowed us to free up thousands of hours in engineering time that was used in technical phone screens while still matching our hiring bar.”
John Egan Head of Growth Engineering, Pinterest

Combine code challenges and live technical interviews
The Karat solution for University Recruiting includes a code challenge, at no cost. Karat uses that result to advance candidates to the live technical interview. Both the code challenge and live technical interview are aligned to your hiring bar, ensuring the highest possible onsite-to-offer ratios.

University Recruiting analytics and insights
Karat delivers hiring funnel analytics as on-demand status updates and weekly snapshots throughout the recruiting season. This data highlights aggregate performance and cuts by school, program, gender, or ethnicity. Karat compares your results to our interview dataset to identify new opportunities to reach DEI goals, adjust your hiring bar, and identify new schools.

“Karat has allowed us to free up thousands of hours in engineering time that was used in technical phone screens while still matching our hiring bar.”
John Egan Head of Growth Engineering, Pinterest

Build brand affinity with Computer Science students
Technical interviews are conducted by Interview Engineers, providing candidates a high touch experience. Candidates are able to review their interview experience. This feedback is used as an input for ongoing performance management across our network of Interview Engineers.
