[arrtz]

Worldwide, REMOTE, full time or part time -- 100% flexibility. $70-100/hr. Expert Interviewer at Karat (https://karat.io)

Work from anywhere in the world that has a solid internet connection. Work as much or as little as you want. Work any day, any time of day, any number of hours -- you can do 0 one week, 50 the next week, and back to 0 the next week. Only requirement there is that we want you to roughly average at least 10 hours a week, or else the training/time investment doesn't make as much sense from your end or ours. When each interview is done, you're done.

I know the above might sound a little strange, so a bit about the company for context: Karat is a Seattle-based startup that does software engineering interviews on behalf of other companies -- primarily first-round phone screens. Quickly-growing companies can spend a significant fraction of their engineers' time interviewing; we help take the load off. We've done a lot to make the interview experience better for all stakeholders that I could write whole essays about, but suffice it to say that candidates love working with us, clients love working with us, and we're well-funded and growing quickly as a result.

Because of this quickly-growing demand, we're looking to hire more Expert Interviewers. The ideal candidate is a software engineer with strong written and verbal English skills with at least a few years of professional experience. Interviewing experience would be great, but we spend 25 hours (paid) training you before you even start, so if you're strong technically and love working with people we can usually make it work :) Interviews are conducted over video chat, using a collaborative code editor.

Some of our interviewers are freelancers who use our scheduling model to backfill hours; others are full timers at top tech companies looking to make some extra cash; others have quit their jobs to work with us full time; some are digital nomads; one of our interviewers is road tripping around North America for a year and a half, doing anywhere from zero to 40 interviews each week depending on where he is and what the weather's like.

The application form is here: https://jobs.lever.co/karat/d44ab283-c7c0-4bbd-b8c3-4dc0ced6...

I know it's a pretty unique job, so if you have any questions reply here or email me at [e-mail] and I'm happy to talk through any of it.

[karat_qwerty]

I had interview through this company. They gave the company I applied to the bad recommendation. But the thing is:

* Interviewer has less experience than me and wasn't able to understand some concepts.

* Interviewer has no experience with the language I was using (and interviewing for).

* I solved all the challenges and answered all the questions, but the decision was no-go, for some reason (they don't provide feedback).

* I may be wrong here, but they also did recording without my consent. They should ask "Are you ok with recording?". Instead, they just record and violate California recording laws which require consent by both parties.

I think they did very poor job (however, I admit I am biased here). You need to be extra careful interviewing with them. There are some signs that their process is not organized and things don't work very well.

[arrtz]

Hey, sorry to hear you had a bad time. Candidate experience is something I personally spend a lot of time on, so it's always disappointing to hear someone wasn't pleased with their interview. As someone who's had terrible interview experiences in the past, part of why I work here is that I think we can give a better experience to candidates than they get in just about any regular interview.

Anyway, I'd love to dive into the specifics if you want to shoot me an email. I understand if you're not comfortable doing that, but a lot of what you're describing sounds inconsistent with our normal process, so I want to see what went wrong. Even if we didn't actually screw any of this up, there's still a good chance we communicated in a way where you left feeling that we did. Either way, I'd like to fix it.

[apple314159]

Never got passed registration: Unrecognized email domain

[raarts]

This company was here before, I was interested so I applied, filled in the form. Never heard back.

[arrtz]

Could you email me? I'll check on your application internally.

[avip]

Same. Applied, no response. Industry standard :) I really enjoy interviews (on both sides) so thought it'd be fun topping to my day.

[arrtz]

Could you please email me as well? Will look into this, and figure out if there's some systematic reason for why we're missing applications.

[gottebp]

The time flexibility, coupled with remote-work, is a lovely idea. I hope it spreads.

[arrtz]

Thank you! :)

[jeanlucas]

That actually sounds fun.

[arrtz]

It is :) I work on the internal team now, but was interviewing for about a year in 2016 while working on my own business. If you have any questions about what interviewing is like I'm happy to answer!

[mac01021]

Can you describe the process of assigning interviews to interviewers and the process of choosing times for the interview sessions?

If I wanted to set aside a time period of say, 8 contiguous hours every week, during which I wanted to do as many interviews as possible, how many could I expect to be able to fit in?

[arrtz]

Sure! Basically: You put availability on your calendar; we book interviews into that availability. (When candidates schedule, we show them aggregated availability across all eligible interviewers.)

You could do roughly 5 interviews in 8 hours if you account for breaks and everything. It's possible to do more than that, but I'd say that's the happy fill rate. I've done more than that and it starts to be excessive.

[jeanlucas]

Really nice. I'm a founder nowadays on the hiring point, but I kinda wanna give it a try :-)