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I demoed Karat as a customer and I think they're just awful. They pretended that the interview process was customizable, so we sent them what we wanted. Then to
by tedivm 4y ago
I demoed Karat as a customer and I think they're just awful. They pretended that the interview process was customizable, so we sent them what we wanted. Then to demo it I signed myself up as a candidate.
Literally all of our feedback was completely ignored. They didn't touch on any of the topics they said they would, and even though we explicitly told them it wasn't an algorithms heavy position that was their entire focus. On the plus side I did pass the interview, but we ultimately decided that using Karat would have had a real negative impact on our hiring.
- warent 4y agoI don't get this. Karat provides their customers with full, detailed text writeups of every single interview, as well as full recordings both of the interview video call and the code timeline. Why didn't you just review that material?
- tedivm 4y agoI absolutely did review the interview, that was the whole point. I just wasn't willing to risk sending a potential candidate through a pipeline I myself hadn't gone through. I'm happy I caught the problems in advance myself, rather than subjecting someone I potentially wanted to hire to a useless interview. I do want to stress the useless part here too- even with the notes of how the interview went I wouldn't be able to make a decision on things, since they didn't hit the points that were actually relevant to the role.
- metadaemon 4y agoGood on you for not subjecting someone to that.
- warent 4y agoIn summary, the beginning of a brand new business relationship, you demoed a single, first version of your custom purchase, you understood that it needed tuning, and then proceeded to immediately cut them without providing further direction. (EDIT: Note that I previously contracted with Karat and feel loyalty to them, but have no formal association or stake in them, nor do I represent them.)
- tedivm 4y agoTo be clear, we gave a ton of feedback and direction before the demo. All of that was completely ignored. If it was a problem of just tweaking things or making changes then I would have done that, but the fact is that they completely ignored all of the input we had already given. I'm curious why you're so intense about this- do you have some sort of stake in karet?
- bovermyer 4y agoThey worked for Karat, according to their comment history. So yes.
- warent 4y agoI'm seeing now that I should have disclosed this again at the beginning of this thread with my first reply, because now it's coming across as a deception, which was truly not the intent as shown my by earlier comments. Apologies folks
- triyambakam 4y ago[flagged]
- tedivm 4y agoCan you delete this? I don't want a conversation that I'm having to lead to someone being harassed.
- warent 4y agoIt's okay, I'm not anonymous. Thank you for looking out though. I appreciate you and apologize for coming across as adversarial, the company has a special place in my heart and I'm obviously very biased. What you experienced sounds like it was pretty bad, and I hope that they have grown from it
- S201 4y ago
- elijaht 4y ago+1, we had a similar experience using it to hire engineers. It felt like our feedback went into a black hole and they did not change their process. We had a few months of really painful full interview loops with candidates not appropriate for the positions.
- flyandscan88 4y agoFrom your comments it seems you're at Google. Isn't Google mostly algorithm/leetcode problems? I thought Karat was mostly that as well. Wouldn't Karat be a good screen for that sort of thing so as not to waste Google Engineer time?
- EricDeb 4y agoI commented below. I work at Karat in engineering and have had a good experience so far. I'll make sure someone hears about this. I'm not aware of exactly how customizable our interviews are but it should be consistent with what is advertised or that needs to change.