Assessment Engineering at Karat

Karat is revolutionizing the way we interview and assess software engineering candidates, and it all begins here. As a member of Karat's engineering team, you'll work on key innovations to the Karat interviewing infrastructure with engineers who care about the product, their craftsmanship, and the team. We strive to drive the research and analysis that give us the confidence to stand behind our assessment, and ensures that every interview truly gets to the heart of the candidate's abilities.

Core Responsibilities

• Research new interview formats for more effective & accurate methods of assessing candidates
• Generate and evaluate hypotheses on the performance of interview formats
• Determine what type of assessments are most predictive of on-the-job performance
• Continually test existing content by conducting interviews with our clients
• Managing newly created and existing interview formats and questions
• Identify and test ways to reduce bias in interviewing
• Transform hypotheses into standardized, reproducible interview formats
• Write the tooling in our systems necessary to conduct these new, experimental interview formats

About you

• Self-motivated, curious, and truth-seeking
• Driven to improve interviews and assessments
• Degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Previous experience interviewing or evaluating candidates, focused on evaluating fundamental computer science skills (i.e. data structures, algorithms etc.), software craftsmanship (i.e. understanding of unit testing, source control, APIs etc.), and/or specific technologies (i.e. Android, distributed systems etc.).
• A confident technical writer and editor

Bonus Experience

• Experience as a hiring manager for software engineering candidates
• Research experience; experience conducting rigorous experiments and tests
• Statistical experience
• Experience working in Ruby on Rails or a similar web development stack

About Karat

Karat has established the category of Interview Engineering. The company conducts technical interviews on behalf of organizations hiring software engineers. Karat does this through a community of Interview Engineers who are equipped with Karat's interviewing infrastructure, battle-tested questions, and data-informed best practices. The result is highly predictive and fair interviews at scale. Karat has amassed the largest, most robust dataset of structured-interview intelligence to produce never-before-seen hiring analytics. Founded in 2014, Karat is a privately held and venture-funded company based in Seattle

Statement of Non-Discrimination:
In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital/domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination and harassment based on “protected categories,” we also strive to prevent other subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (i.e., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our office. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Karat.

We value a diverse workforce: people of color, womxn, and LGBTQIA+ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

With thanks to the Level Playing Field Institute for this statement of non-discrimination.