[arrtz]

SEEKING FREELANCER

Worldwide, REMOTE, near-total flexibility on hours. $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.

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.

[borplk]

I'm wondering, how long is each interview?

If someone wants to work 20 hours, does that mean 20 hours of interviewing?

Are there enough interviews available to be able to maintain the hours?

Just curious what a 20 hour work week would look like doing this job.

[arrtz]

Hey, thanks for the questions. Interviews are mostly 60 minutes, though we are experimenting with longer formats (90 and 120). We leave 30 minutes at the end of each interview to complete and submit your write-up on the candidate's performance (we have a detailed rubric that you grade against for each section of the interview). As you become more experienced, you tend to need much less than 30 minutes to complete this writeup.

If you wanted to work 20 hours, that could be 20 hours of interviewing, but we also have other work you can do as you become more experienced, like helping to review interviews, mentor newer interviewers, develop and test new interview content, build features on the platform, etc. Some people prefer to only or mostly interview though, and that's fine.

There's some seasonality to interview supply just because of the nature of recruiting cycles, but we're growing pretty quickly and we've got people focused on capacity management, so that smooths things out a bit.

A 20 hour work week for some people is just 20 hours of interviewing on their own schedule; for others it's a mix of interviewing, reviewing others' interviews, and mentoring. We have some interviews who do mostly non-interviewing tasks like mentoring, or working with clients, just based on their preferences and skillsets.

Hope that answers your questions, but let me know if you'd like me to elaborate on any of this.