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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. read more
Karat Company Culture
Karat Culture
This score is derived from employee ratings & reviews3.7/5
Karat's Overall Culture is rated B-
Top Rated Culture Dimensions
Office Culture
A+Retention
BProfessional Development
BCompensation
BGender
BKarat CEO
Top 40%Top 40% of Similar Size Companies on Comparably
Mohit Bhende
73 /100
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Diversity at Karat
Bottom 45%Bottom 45% of Similar Size Companies on Comparably
C
Diverse employees at Karat have rated Leadership, Manager, and Perks And Benefits as the highest categories they have scored
Women at Karat
Top 35%Top 35% of Similar Size Companies on Comparably
B
Women at Karat have rated Team, Outlook, and Manager as the highest categories they have scored
Karat eNPS
Net Promoter Score tracks your employees' overall score to this question: "On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend working at your company to a friend?"Top 35%Top 35% of Similar Size Companies on Comparably
Recommend to a Friend?
38
Karat employees are 38% more likely to recommend Karat as a great place to work
| 65% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 8% | Passives |
| 27% | Detractors |
Working at Karat
Working at Karat is rated average by 54 employees, across various culture dimensions. Karat employees are most satisfied about Office Culture, Retention, and Professional Development categories, putting Karat’s culture in the Top 40% compared to similar sized companies on Comparably and in the Top 30% compared to other companies in Seattle. See below in detail how working at Karat was rated by employees.
Overall Company Culture at Karat
B-
Overall Company Culture at Karat is rated B-
Last updated months ago
Top
40%
Karat ranks in the Top 40% of other companies on Comparably with 51-200 Employees for Overall Company Culture Score
Karat Employee Reviews
Out of 100 Karat employee reviews, 87% were positive. The remaining 13% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Karat improve their work culture.
| Positive Reviews | 87% |
|---|---|
| Constructive Feedback | 13% |
Positive Reviews From Karat Employees
- What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?Get it done culture with customer focus
- What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?Our core principles are amazing. I'm continually impressed with how their people-first approach helps employees, customers, candidates, and interviewers.
- What are some of the best things about your team?Smart, hardworking, customer centric at lower levels/peers
Constructive Feedback From Karat Employees
- What does the leadership team need to get better at?They need to get better at respecting interviewers. No gaslighting. Straight communication. Loyalty to the community that helped build the company.
- What does the leadership team need to get better at?Setting strategy, telling the truth, making money
- 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.
Karat Company Information
Karat Company Overview
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.
Karat was founded in 2013 and its current CEO is Mohit Bhende. Since its inception 13 years ago, Karat has grown to 200 employees.
Karat Mission, Vision & Values
Karat Mission & Values
Our mission is to be the world’s interviewer. We conduct highly predictive interviews for our clients with rigor, humanity and fairness. Karat helps companies hire the engineers they need to create the future and helps ensure that engineers are in jobs that maximize their strengths.
Karat Vision Statement
Our mission is to be the world’s interviewer. We conduct highly predictive interviews for our clients with rigor, humanity and fairness. Karat helps companies hire the engineers they need to create the future and helps ensure that engineers are in jobs that maximize their strengths.
| Headquarter | 1414 NE 42nd St, Ste 204 Seattle, WA 98105 United States of America |
|---|---|
| Website | karat.com/ |
| Founding Date | 2013 |
| Tel | 509-761-9141 |
| Company Status | Private |
| Jobs | karat.com/careers |
| Social Sites |
Karat Competitors
Karat competitors include HireVue. Karat ranks 2nd in Overall Culture Score on Comparably vs its competitors. See below how Karat compares to its competitors with CEO Rankings, Product & Services, NPS, Pricing, Customer Services, Overall Culture Score, eNPS, Gender and Diversity Scores.
Culture Video
Karat Interviewer Profile - Lus Meet Lus, one of our talented interviewers. Apply to become an interviewer yourself at karat.io/interviewers
Karat Summer Offsite 2017 The Karat team got together for a few days in Seattle to celebrate the first half of 2017 and set course for an ambitious second half. Learn more about Karat at karat.io Music by Jeff Kaale soundcloud.com/jeff-kaale
Karat Hackathon - Spring 2018 We gathered some of our core team together for 3 days in April to research, experiment, and build. Learn more about life at Karat here: karat.io/careers
Karat Interviewer Summit 2017 We gathered some of the best technical interviewers in the world to Seattle for two days of community-building and professional-development. Learn more about being a Karat Interviewer at karat.io/interviewers
Karat Summer Offsite 2018 This year’s Karat offsite was a celebration of major milestones: Employee count has doubled since 2017, over 20,000 interviews conducted, and over 200,000 hiring outcomes recorded. We’re proud to be the world’s leader in conducting first-round technical interviews. To learn more about working at Karat, visit karat.io/careers
Debugging the Technical Interview - Karat + CZI Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Karat co-hosted "Debugging the Technical Interview" to reveal best practices for interviewing software engineering candidates. Workshop attendees walked away with best practices for creating a consistent, efficient, and reliable technical interview that will delight candidates.
Karat Employees
Karat has 200 employees. 54 employees at Karat have reviewed Karat across various culture dimensions, providing their opinions on items ranging from executive ratings to the pace at work. The latest review was months ago.
Overall, the 54 Karat employees give their leadership a grade of B-, or Top 40% of similar size companies on Comparably. This includes specific ratings of their executive team, CEO, and manager.
Employees at Karat are pleased with their total compensation at Karat, which includes a combination of pay, stock and equity, and benefits.
Overall, employees at Karat are pleased with their team. 54 Participants grade the quality of their coworkers a C+. The majority believe the meetings at Karat are effective, and the majority look forward to interacting with their coworkers.
The majority of employees at Karat believe the environment at Karat is positive. Most Participants believe the pace of work at Karat is comfortably fast. About 71% of the employees at Karat work 8 hours or less, while 10% of them have an extremely long day - longer than twelve hours.
Overall, the employees at Karat are happy, based on their aggregated ratings of future outlook, customer perception, and their excitement going to work.
Joining Karat - Employee Onboarding
The prevailing opinion from employees about joining Karat is that the company was prepared on their first day. Karat employees concluded that their overall onboarding experience was positive. 100% said their direct manager was helpful with their acclimation during the first 90 days. First impressions are important, and how prepared a company is on your first day leaves a lasting impression.
Karat KPIs and OKRs
At Karat 100% of employees think their department KPIs and OKRs are clear. Employees’ understanding of Karat's KPIs and OKRs is essential for its success. Out of 5 Karat employees who’ve answered, “Are your company’s goals clear and are you invested in them?” 5 have said yes.
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Karat CEO & Leadership
Karat CEO - Mohit Bhende
73 /100
Karat’s CEO Mohit Bhende started in this role in 2014. Mohit’s approval rate is just above average, putting Mohit in the Top 40% of all CEOs of similar-sized companies on Comparably, and in the Top 35% compared to the CEOs of all other companies in Seattle. Mohit Bhende is well regarded by employees for the Office Culture Karat offers, and ranks among the Top 5% of CEOs by employees in that category. Mohit is most liked by employees with 1 to 3 Years experience and Female employees. However, employees with 6 to 10 Years experience have a slightly unfavorable view of the CEO. When compared to Karat’s competitors, Mohit Bhende ranks just below HireVue’s CEO Anthony Reynolds. With Mohit’s leadership, Karat employee respondents are most happy about their Office Culture and Retention. Mohit was rated slightly below average for Diversity.
Karat Leadership
The Karat Executive Team is rated a “C+” and led by CEO Mohit Bhende, CEO, Co-Founder Mo Bhende, and Co-Founder Jeffrey Spector
Mohit Bhende CEO / President
Mohit Bhende serves as the CEO / President of Karat.
Mo Bhende CEO, Co-Founder
Mo Bhende serves as the CEO, Co-Founder of Karat.
Jeffrey Spector Co-Founder
Jeffrey Spector serves as the Co-Founder of Karat.
Werner Koepf Senior VP, Engineering
Werner Koepf serves as the Senior VP, Engineering of Karat.
Erez Yarkoni Executive VP, Customer Operations & Revenue
Erez Yarkoni serves as the Executive VP, Customer Operations & Revenue of Karat.
Karat Salaries
How much does Karat pay?
How much do people at Karat get paid? See the latest salaries by department and job title. The average estimated annual salary, including base and bonus, at Karat is $137,841, or $66 per hour, while the estimated median salary is $130,316, or $62 per hour.
38 employees at Karat rank their Compensation in the Top 35% of similar sized companies in the US (based on 120 ratings) while 37 employees at Karat rank their Perks And Benefits in the Top 40% of similar sized companies in the US (based on 41 ratings).
Last updated months ago.
| Summary | Salary Range | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
1st Percentile $142k | $142k | 1st Percentile |
20th Percentile $179k | $179k | 20th Percentile |
40th Percentile $211k | $211k | 40th Percentile |
60th Percentile $232k | $232k | 60th Percentile |
80th Percentile $239k | $239k | 80th Percentile |
100th Percentile $291k | $291k | 100th Percentile |
$137,841*
Average Compensation
$130,316*
Median Compensation
* Estimated salaries Estimated salaries are based on data provided anonymously by employees and/or estimated by other statistical methods.
Diversity & Inclusion at Karat
Diverse employees at Karat score the company 78/100 across various culture categories, placing Karat in the Bottom 45% of companies on Comparably with 51-200 Employees for Comparably's diversity score. The Diversity score provides insights into how diverse employees feel and rate their work experience at Karat across various culture dimensions.
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Karat Perks & Benefits
Health & Wellness
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
Paid Time Off
- PTO / Vacation Policy
- Paid Holidays
- Maternity / Paternity Leave
Financial Benefits
- 401K / Retirement Plan
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Office Perks
- Free Food
- Pet-Friendly
- Company Social Outings
- Work From Home Policy
Karat PTO
Karat's PTO and Vacation policy typically gives unlimited days off a year. Karat's benefits and PTO Package averages to represent a $1500 - $2500 cash value per month.
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Frequently Asked Questions regarding Karat
What is Karat address?
Karat location is at 1414 NE 42nd St, Ste 204
Who is the CEO of Karat?
Karat CEO is Mohit Bhende, their score by employees is 73
What are the salaries in Karat
The average salary for employees in Karat is 137841$
What is Karat eNPS?
The eNPS for Karat is 38
How many employees work in Karat?
Karat has 200 employees
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