Karat Engineering Department Employee Reviews
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
Our leaders are humble and hungry to learn. These qualities are diffused throughout the entire company's culture, creating a fantastic environment for growth and development on the individual and corporate levels.
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There is a lot of transparency which is very nice in a company this size, also the leadership team promotes a strong growth culture.
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They are considerate of their employees and always listen to the concerns anyone at any level in the company has. They're also very driven to work towards the goal Karat is working towards which makes it inspiring to work alongside them.
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Stop misleading their clients and candidates through misleading and defective interview processes.
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Leadership need to get better at appreciating their interviewing team as they are the ones creating the business value
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
Good salaries for employees. While the benefits are a bit lower than other larger companies since we are still a startup, the salaries make up for it.
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
They get a lot of unpaid work done by the new hires in the onboarding process whereby a candidate may need to spend many hours or even days going through their documentation and none of it is paid for. Even after that, there is no guarantee of any amount of work you may or may not get.
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The fact interviewers get paid the same regardless of their experience and skills set is a joke (their senior interviewer title does not make any sense). There is no sharing of equity and other benefits. interviewers are expected to perform like employees while being paid as contractors.
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What are some of the best things about your team?
The Karat team is the reason I joined at a full-time capacity. Everyone is extremely intelligent but welcoming, funny, and compassionate.
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Everyone is very nice. It's evident that's been the main thing the leadership has looked for when making a hire. People are enjoyable to interact with, empathetic, and want everyone to enjoy what it is they're doing.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
There aren't any co-workers as such because it's an on-demand interview platform.
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The fact everyone works remotely was contractors means there are no social interactions with other people
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
Interviewers are continually berated and held to forever changing impossibly high standards. The post interview QA team completed about the tiniest detail such as going 10 second over one of the sections (a section in which you have to ask 3 questions each with 3 parts all within 10 mins)
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Outlook, people, mission, and impact!
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Daily interactions. Many people eat lunch together and go to events after work together making work much more enjoyable as you often know the people on your team well.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Guarantees for a minimum amount of work per month and suitable appreciation or evaluation.
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What did you like most about the interview process?
The interview process was extremely transparent. I always knew where I was and what would happen next.
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The expectations are clearly set and you know what they are looking for.
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Felt very fair and I felt that they got a lot of signal out of their questions - didn't waste either of our time. Also, there was lots of opportunity for me to ask them questions, and I was able to schedule it for the evening.
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The interactions often times didn't feel like interviews but rather just conversations. This made the whole process comfortable.
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
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What makes you most happy at work?
Impact, growth, people, free snacks, time spent with co workers.
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The amazing team makes me look forward to every day
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Every project I work on has noticeable impact on the company making everything I do feel like it has meaning. This helps me stay focused and driven.
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
The company is attempting to get the work done through contracting interview engineers for cheap, without sufficient training, and hence needs to fix its business practices. Both - the candidates and the hiring clients get a sub par experience.
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They need to pick a direction for their interviewing team. They either have a loyal fully committed and onboarded interviewing team or they continue trying to do this with contractors who can't meet their expectations while still earning an acceptable wage
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