Karat runs technical interviews and skills evaluations for companies hiring and assessing engineers, delivered by its own interviewer network. Hiring is accelerating and engineering-heavy, with a wide spread of countries from Poland to the Philippines that fits a distributed interviewer model. Projects on a candidate matching engine, recruiter dashboards and AI-driven content analysis point to a shift from interview services toward a data product.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Communications
Karat is a Seattle-based, privately held company founded in 2014 that provides technical interviewing and talent evaluation for engineering organizations. Its interviews are conducted by experienced engineers and increasingly include AI-related skill scenarios, and evaluation results are turned into workforce insight for technical leaders. The company employs 201–500 people and hires across the United States, Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. Its product stack spans Ruby, Python, React, TypeScript and GraphQL on AWS, GCP and Azure, with Salesforce and Zendesk supporting commercial and customer operations.
Karat builds with Ruby, Python, React, TypeScript and GraphQL across AWS, GCP and Azure, uses Redshift and Metabase for analytics, and runs Salesforce, Zendesk, Jira and Slack internally. Engineers use Cursor and Vertex AI Code Assist.
Yes. Engineering is the dominant hiring area, mostly mid and senior level, with smaller openings in product, operations, communications and data. Overall hiring velocity is accelerating.
Karat hires in the United States, Canada, Argentina, Poland, Greece, the United Arab Emirates, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia.
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Karat's technology stack, projects, and hiring signals are inferred from public hiring and company data — career pages, public listings, and company web presence — then clustered and de-duplicated. Figures are estimates that refresh over time. Read our full methodology →
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