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Karat
Company blog · karat.com/blogcareerprogramming
Karat is the company blog at karat.com, writing about career and programming. Since 2020, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
31mentions?
11HN people?
2020–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Karat's company site, linked mostly in job posts and in comments about its remote technical interview service. The comments do not assess any writing on the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The trusted standard for technical interview and screening services. Expert evaluation, global benchmarks, and workforce intelligence for the human+AI era.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-08-23
- /company/be-an-interview-engineer/2 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2021-11-02
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-19
What Hacker News says?
Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
Comment linking /company/be-an-interview-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Submitted Triplebyte Acquired by Karat as a story · 24 points
HN discussionKarat |Interview Engineer | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Part-time & Full-time | https://karat.com/company/careers/ Karat is a Seattle-based startup that conducts software engineering interviews on behalf of other engineering organizations -- primarily first-round technical interviews. Our network of experienced Interview Engineers have conducted tens of thousands of technical interviews with software engineering cand…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Can ChatGPT pass a technical interview? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionKarat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted YAML, JSON, JSONB, and Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionKarat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted What remote interviews teach us about remote onboarding as a story · 1 points
HN discussionKarat | Interview Engineer | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Part-time & Full-time (Freelance) | https://karat.com/company/be-an-interview-engineer/ Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for s…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”I've been doing Karat interviews for about three years and it's been incredible for my mental health. The work is extremely flexible and there is nothing to worry about when you're not working (I dread deadlines and I'm neurotic enough to never manage a good WLB at a regular SWE gig). The compensation is also pretty good. Apply on their website if interested ( https://karat.com/ ) or hit me up at my username at goog…
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on “Facebook employees are now more willing to leave, tech recruiters say”Karat | Interview Engineer | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Part-time & Full-time (Freelance) | https://karat.com/company/be-an-interview-engineer/ Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for s…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)”Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Karat | Question Writer / Subject Matter Expert | REMOTE | https://karat.com | $80-300/hr depending on subject matter and expertise level | projects 2-3 months @ 10-20 hours/week Karat provides technical assessments for candidates applying to software engineering roles at top tech companies. We work with subject matter experts to develop questions in a specific area and then use psychometric principles to ensure tha…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Karat | Interview Engineer | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Part-time & Full-time (Freelance) | https://karat.com/company/be-an-interview-engineer/ Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for s…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021)”Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2022)”Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”I've been an interviewer with Karat for 2.5yrs, it's genuinely great. https://karat.com/ I know you made the statement in jest, but trying to improve on the interview process is not a bad idea. At the very least, it's less engineering time wasted conducting interviews.
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on “Tech Interview Handbook”Karat | Interview Engineer | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Part-time & Full-time (Freelance) | https://karat.com/company/be-an-interview-engineer/ Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for s…
Comment linking /company/be-an-interview-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for software engineers. From our industry-leading solutions to Karat’s Brilliant Black Minds program, the work we do here matters. We’re a passionate…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Karat | Interview Engineer | REMOTE (US & OUTSIDE US) | Part-time & Full-time (Freelance) | https://karat.com/company/be-an-interview-engineer/ Karat’s purpose is to Unlock Opportunity for engineers and companies alike, and our mission is to make every interview predictive, fair, and enjoyable. As the world’s technical hiring expert, we help companies hire smarter and grow faster, and create more opportunities for s…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2021)”I interviewed at GitHub last year for a Frontend role, I went through this process then at the time. I have to say as a candidate it was extremely off putting being asked to create a CRUD API for a Frontend role. It wasn't a hard ask, but I feel like the skillset being tested is not the same. After reading this blog, it seems it would be easy to automate the exercise toward creating a CRUD API versus a drop-down men…
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on “GitHub does take home technical interviews”It should be said that there were others - like https://interviewing.io/ https://karat.com/ et al - that figured out the importance of moving beyond "grind LeetCode" years hackerrank did, but it's good to see them acknoweldge this, too.
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on “Sorry we made you grind LeetCode”I went with `.co` for Ritza[0], but I still think `.com` helps you rank better, and is still 'assumed' by many people, and at this stage I would probably move a .com domain soon. I noticed that places like Karat[1] moved from .io to .com, so I assume that they had issues running on the .io domain. I've also written a lot on CodeMentor (.io) and it "feels" harder to get artices to rank well than on other places (e.g.…
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on “No to .io, Yes to .xyz”I concur with the other comments here that this is almost useless. It could be useful if you're interested in companies dumb enough to care about most of the stuff this article focuses on. I've conducted over 3,000 interviews, most of them via Karat ( https://karat.com/ ), and I can say that, as a software engineer at least, you can safely ignore this kind of advice.
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on “How to pass any first-round interview (even in a terrible talent market)”