Karat conducts what they call “highly predictive technical interviews” on behalf of their clients. Technical skills assessments are nothing new. This feels more like packaging of an assessment to me. Disclosure: We have not been briefed on Karat yet.
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 from existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and 8VC.The company intends to use the funds to:– scale its solution and its community of Interview Engineers.– invest in R&D to leverage its body of structured-interview intelligence to continuously improve its predictive and fair technical interviews for hiring software engineers.