Karat interviews at MongoDB/Roblox/Robinhood

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Sep 3, 2021 12 Comments

In the mood for an new role. Have cliff coming up next year and unsure if I will make E5.

Seeing more and more of these interviews with Karat when applying. Is it me, or should I just decline the process with places that use them?

I strongly feel interviewing is part of SWE’s job description. outsourcing that feels like the company doesn’t trust their own people. Also feels like a terrible candidate experience that company doesn’t want to invest their time in getting to know me and see my skills.

For a startup I can understand you outsource a part. Although there it is probably even more important to get the right people in.

Am I just complaining? Or is this the future that are interviews as a service?

Those who work at companies that outsource the interview process: what is your experience with candidates?

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  • Roblox
    VhMB84

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    VhMB84
    For my team it is just a first pass filter, think of it as another technical phone screen. There is still an on-site round after a successful Karat.
    Sep 3, 2021 7
    • There might be a healthy compromise here. As long as the karat coding questions are normalized to not requiring human hint intervention that you’d get in a typical phone screen with an engineer.

      Otherwise I don’t see the point. It’s a waste of time for sourcing recruiters and candidates as those questions are going to create a large number of false negatives.

      Before my tenure at DISCA, I was at Amazon and failed a couple of online quizzes only to get a phone screen the following week with a different team and pass to the on-site stage. Which I also passed.

      The first two teams at Amazon basically missed out on hiring me and ended up wasting time for those recruiters.
      Sep 3, 2021
    • Twilio
      qfDo73

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      qfDo73
      Karat should also offer the service to candidates. Let a "shadow" interviewer take an interview with a "shadow" candidate.

      Send your friends to get interview experience with "Karat"
      Oct 20, 2021
  • Twitter / Eng
    ufsbwhs

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    ufsbwhs
    Make 380k but scared of a coding exercise? Lol
    Sep 3, 2021 1
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    • REX
      geniuses

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      geniuses
      Karat interviews are looking for very specific things and while there will not be many false positives, there will be a fair amount of false negatives.
      Sep 4, 2021
  • Karat is awesome for the sole reason they can be scheduled on weekends
    Oct 22, 2021 0