Case Study: Ethos Life achieves 6x engineering team growth and reclaims 400+ developer hours with Karat

How Ethos Life improves software engineering candidate quality

Ethos Life needed to grow its software engineering team sixfold across Austin, Singapore, and San Francisco in under 12 months while preparing for a funding round and accelerating an ambitious product roadmap. After finding automated code tests and take-home assignments couldn’t reliably surface senior-level communication and collaboration skills and were consuming engineering time, Ethos Life partnered with Karat to help scale hiring without overburdening its engineers.

Karat’s Interview Engineers ran first-round live technical interviews (with Alignment Engineers calibrating the Ethos hiring bar) for backend, frontend, full-stack, data science, and SWE roles, freeing engineering bandwidth and improving hiring quality. As a result of Karat’s approach, Ethos Life hired 35 senior software engineers, reclaimed about 400 hours of developer time, increased interview completion to 77% (from 70%), and achieved a 93% candidate satisfaction rating, while boosting team morale and recruiter effectiveness.

Ethos Life

Tina Tian

Head of Talent Acquisition