Case Study: Deliveroo accelerates hiring and reclaims engineering hours ahead of IPO with Karat

How Karat helped Deliveroo accelerate hiring ahead of their IPO

Deliveroo, facing rapid growth during the COVID‑19 surge and preparing for a spring 2021 IPO, needed to hire large numbers of engineers quickly without draining productive engineering time. To meet that challenge they partnered with Karat to outsource and scale their technical interviewing while keeping hiring standards aligned with Deliveroo’s bar.

Karat ran calibrated, 24/7 technical interviews (via its Interview Engineers and Alignment Engineering process), provided standardized recommendations, analytics and recorded interviews, and tuned its signals to Deliveroo’s hiring funnel. The partnership cut average time to a technical interview recommendation by 40% (to ~5.1 days), improved the onsite‑to‑offer ratio 2.3x, reduced false positives by 56%, and reclaimed over 3,000 engineering hours for Deliveroo.

Deliveroo

Dan Winn

Chief Technology Officer