Karat operates a live technical interviewing service anchored on human expertise and structured assessment data. The stack centers on developer tools (GitHub, Cursor, HackerRank, SQL) and operational platforms (Jira, Asana, Zendesk), with active projects focused on AI-enabled interview content and generative workflows. The hiring mix is heavily engineering-focused (25 of 44 open roles), suggesting infrastructure scaling around both platform capability and interview facilitation capacity.
Karat provides live, expert-led technical interviews and hiring analytics for mid-market and enterprise engineering organizations. The service combines human interviewers with performance data and assessment frameworks to help companies measure engineering talent, hire contractors, and reduce bias in hiring decisions. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Karat operates across 18+ countries with hiring activity concentrated in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Current priorities include improving interview quality signals, reducing process bottlenecks in scheduling, and building AI-assisted content for interviews.
Karat uses GitHub, Jira, Confluence, HackerRank, SQL, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, and Zendesk. Developer-focused tools dominate the stack, alongside operational and collaboration platforms.
Karat has active hiring across 18 countries: the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Romania, Greece, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, and New Zealand.
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