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| 20.05.2024 | How micro1’s AI interviewer could make tech hiring more efficient and fair | Join us in returning to NYC on June 5th to collaborate with executive leaders in exploring comprehensive methods for auditing AI models regarding bias, performance, and ethical compliance across diverse organizations. Find out how you can a... |
| 23.04.2023 | Melinda French Gates' former chief of staff, who cofounded a unicorn startup, says 'Do you have any questions?' is the most important interview question to nail. Here's how to answer it. | Jeffrey Spector is the Co-Founder and President of Karat. Jeffrey Spector
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Jeffrey Spector is the cofounder of Karat and the former chief of staff to Melinda French Gates.
He says applicants should be more thoughtful when answerin... |
| 16.03.2023 | Technical interview platform Karat snaps up Triplebyte to add adaptive quizzes for engineers | The technology industry continues to rack up an ever-longer list of layoffs — which now stand at nearly 139,000 according to Layoffs.fyi — but taking the wider job market, the overall pace of recruiting engineers and other technical talent ... |
| 17.02.2023 | Will ChatGPT make coding tests for engineers obsolete? | Automated testing for software engineering job candidates is widely used today, with many companies relying on such techniques to identify the most talented programmers. But these tests are not without their faults, and the burgeoning field... |
| 15.02.2023 | Brilliant Black Minds: Startup’s project backed by Serena Williams aims to break down barriers | Crystal Moore. (Karat Photo)
As a middle school student in the small Mississippi town of Collinsville, Crystal Moore would spend lunch in her school’s computer lab. She also observed first-hand some of the barriers to Black socio-economic a... |
| 07.11.2022 | Companies in the HR/hiring space that you should know | Some that raised funding since the beginning of 2021 include Talview, Deel, and Jobandtalent
COVID fundamentally altered the way we live, turning much of what we knew upside down; some of those changes were immediately apparent, and others ... |
| 14.06.2022 | Serena Williams Invests In Karat To Expand Their Brilliant Black Minds Program | L to R: Anthony Mays senior advisor to Karat's the Brilliant Black Minds program, Serena Williams ... [+] Karat's "Champion Of Brilliance" Karat |
| 19.04.2022 | Serena Williams investing in Karat to help startup prepare more Black engineers for tech interviews | Serena Williams at the 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards in Los Angeles on March 13. (Starfrenzy via BigStock Photo)
Tennis star Serena Williams has made an investment in Karat, the Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technic... |
| 12.04.2022 | ‘Which videogames do you play?’ How firms are finding and keeping scarce tech talent
Where the candidates are
Job seekers in control
The crucial interview
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Show your support for our mi... | Between the Great Resignation and the chronic shortage of information technology talent, organizations have never had a harder time finding and keeping qualified people.
Although the task is easier for hot startups swimming in venture capit... |
| 31.01.2022 | University of Houston launches new health equity initiative, degree programs | The University of Houston announced its latest and largest initiative to improve health equity and outcomes in the city, state, and county this week.
About 70 percent of health outcomes can be traced back to factors outside of health care a... |
| 13.01.2022 | Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion | (GeekWire Photo Illustration / Photo by Kevin Lisota)
Another day, another unicorn spotting.
These once elusive creatures of the corporate world — privately-held companies valued at a $1 billion or more — certainly are plentiful these days.... |
| 12.01.2022 | Houston named a top market for remote tech workers, startup doubles its staff, and more innovation news | Houston is starting 2022 strong in terms of innovation news, and there might be some headlines you may have missed.
In this roundup of short stories within Houston startups and tech, the Bayou City is ranked based on its ability to employ r... |
| 20.12.2021 | What makes Pittsburgh a top city for hiring remote software engineers? | The pandemic confirmed what those in tech have long known: You don’t need to go into an office to get your work done. And Pittsburgh software engineers might know that better than those in other cities.
Earlier this month, technical intervi... |
| 17.11.2021 | Karat – Outsourcing Interviews by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
There are 4 million developers in the US. Suppose they change their jobs every three y... |
| 13.10.2021 | Technical interviewing startup Karat reaches $1.1B valuation as another unicorn emerges in Seattle | Karat co-founders Mo Bhende (left) and Jeff Spector. (Karat Photos)
The news: Karat, a Seattle-based startup that helps companies conduct technical interviews, raised a $110 million Series C round at a $1.1 billion valuation. It’s the lates... |
| 13.10.2021 | Karat Pioneers The Interviewing Cloud To Transform Technical Hiring, Secures $110Million In Series C Funding | Tiger Global leads funding to rapidly scale and accelerate adoption of the Karat Interviewing Cloud as the preeminent standard for hiring engineering talent
Karat, the world leader in technical interviewing and pioneer of the Interviewing C... |
| 13.10.2021 | Karat raises $110M on a $1.1B valuation to grow its technical interviewing-as-a-service platform | In the global race for technical talent, companies are on the hunt for ways to speed up and scale the hiring process to snap up the best candidates before their competitors get to them. Today, a company that has built a solution to help wit... |
| 13.10.2021 | Will Coinbase’s new NFT efforts compete with OpenSea? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Coinbase is an investor in NFT marketplace, OpenSea.
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| 13.10.2021 | Will Coinbase’s new NFT efforts compete with OpenSea? | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Coinbase is an investor in NFT marketplace, OpenSea.
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| 10.10.2021 | Мои собеседования 2021 edition | Внимание: повествование будет идти в стиле "здравствуй дорогой дневничок", без критики и срывов покровов. Я строго против публичной критики компаний в разрезе процесса интервью. Хотят устраивать 5 алгораундов - их дело, они будут ... |
| 16.09.2021 | New research from Karat and Howard University sheds light on access challenges facing Black software engineers | |
| 12.03.2021 | How to get onto the partner track at McKinsey, according to management-consulting headhunters and a former McKinsey HR manager | McKinsey and Company often appears at the top of the list of the "Big Three" consulting firms. Charles Platiau/Reuters This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 08.03.2021 | A headhunter who's helped execs at Morgan Stanley and Facebook break the glass ceiling shares the 3 strategies women and people of color should use to land in the C-suite | Portia Kibble Smith is an executive recruiter and the diversity and inclusion lead at Karat. Portia Kibble Smith This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 14.10.2020 | Karat Honored by Goldman Sachs for Entrepreneurship | |
| 23.06.2020 | How to get a job at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or Accenture, according to 3 headhunters for these top management consulting firms | Logo of McKinsey and Company is seen at VivaTech fair in Paris Reuters This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| 07.05.2020 | Amid widespread tech industry layoffs, some companies are still hiring in a ‘flipped’ labor market | Hartley Riedner, new head of operations at Seattle-area startup Docugami, with CEO Jean Paoli on a video call this week. Riedner interviewed for the role and has been working at the company without yet meeting Paoli or other members of the ... |
| 21.12.2019 | How Karat’s engineering chief gets things done and runs effective meetings by talking less | Zach van Schouwen, vice president of engineering at Karat. (Karat Photo)
Zach van Schouwen, vice president of engineering for Karat, landed his job through a Craigslist ad.
It was 2016 and he was on sabbatical, living in Brooklyn in New Yor... |
| 15.05.2019 | Karat nabs $28M led by Tiger Global to grow its human-powered online interview platform for engineering jobs | A high demand for engineering talent in our digital world has driven companies that need to make these technical hires to cast their nets wider in the search for good people. Now, a company that has built a platform that it says helps compa... |
| 15.05.2019 | Karat Raises $28M in Series B Financing | Karat, a Seattle, WA-based leader in conducting technical interviews on behalf of companies, raised $28m in Series B funding.
The round, which has raised over $41m in total funding, was led by Tiger Global Management, with participation fro... |
| 15.05.2019 | Tiger Global backs another Seattle startup, leads $28M round for technical interview platform Karat | A Karat interviewer on a video conference with a candidate during a technical interview. (Karat Photo)
As partners from top tech investment firm Tiger Global Management attended recent board meetings, they kept hearing about a small startup... |
| 15.05.2019 | Daily funding roundup - May 15th, 2019 | Phil raised $25M; ClickSWITCH secure $13M; Aleph Farms landed $12M; Novi Labs closed $7M
86 Repairs: 86 Repairs is a subscription service that manages the entire repair process for restaurant groups. 86 Repairs has raised $1.5 million fundi... |
| 15.05.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, May 15, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, May 15.
Machine learning startup Novi raises $7 million in Series A funding to scale its technology. Novi, a machine learning driven well planning software pl... |
| 11.03.2019 | Karat’s Interviewers, Software Help Tech Firms Assess Engineers | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When it comes to interviewing candidates for software engineering positions at big technology companies, “takes one to know one” tends to be an appropriate axiom, says Mohit B... |
