Your customers speak Kannada. Test candidates in it.
Bengaluru hiring isn't only tech. The people who run its stores, deliver its orders and answer its support calls work in Kannada — and the further you hire from the city, the truer that gets. Kaairo lets you assess candidates in Kannada while your hiring team works entirely in English.
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What runs in Kannada today
All three written test types
Case studies, situational judgement tests and multiple choice questions run end-to-end in Kannada — the same assessment engine your English tests use, in a different language.
Native script or Roman
Candidates choose Kannada script or Roman — Kannada spelt in English letters, the way plenty of people type day to day — when they begin. Whichever they read fastest is the one they get.
A candidate interface in Kannada
Instructions and navigation render in Kannada alongside the questions, so candidates are never decoding English chrome around a Kannada test.
Scoring blind to language choice
Answers in Kannada, English or a mix all land on the same rubric, with 0-100 competency scores and written rationale returned in English.
The job runs in Kannada. Score it there.
A store associate in Jayanagar or a delivery rider in Hubballi works in Kannada all day. Testing them in written English measures the wrong thing.
Recover the candidates English filters out
Plenty of strong retail, delivery and support candidates reason sharply in Kannada but freeze in written English. An English-only test rejects them before you ever see their thinking.
Zero translation overhead
You author in English once. Kaairo's AI translation builds the Kannada version in native script and Roman — no agencies, no bilingual reviewers, no drift between two versions of the same test.
English output for your team
Every score, per-competency rationale and report arrives in English, so a hiring manager in head office reviews Kannada candidates exactly the way they review English ones.
Fair to how people actually write
Candidates can answer in Kannada, in English, or switch mid-sentence. What's scored is the reasoning an answer carries — not how pure its Kannada is.
Built for how Karnataka hires
Retail floors in Mysuru, field operations in Mangaluru, branch banking counters in Hubballi, support desks in Bengaluru — roles where the customer conversation happens in Kannada.
A register that fits the role
Choose a formal register for branch banking or a conversational one for delivery and retail — the tone of the assessment matches the tone of the job.
Kannada assessments without learning Kannada
Three steps from an English draft to a live Kannada assessment.
Build it in English
Pick competencies, test types and questions in English, the way you always do — say, an SJT on a late-delivery escalation for the rider fleet you're growing in Bengaluru.
Enable Kannada
Switch on Kannada for the assessment. AI translation generates the native-script and Roman versions, and you pick a register — conversational fits a fleet hire better than bank-formal.
Shortlist off English scores
Riders and store staff take it in Kannada; you get 0-100 competency scores, per-competency rationales and reports in English, ready for shortlisting.
Rigour that doesn't change with the language
The same assessment engine behind our English tests runs the Kannada ones.
Competency-based, 0-100
Every candidate gets a 0-100 score per competency with a written rationale — comparable across languages and across candidates.
Remote doesn't mean unwatched
Keep remote Kannada assessments honest with AI proctoring, the same way you would an English assessment.
One platform for hiring and L&D
Assess candidates before you hire and develop employees after — the same Kannada support covers both sides.
No enterprise quote needed
Pricing is published in INR with self-serve signup — you don't need a sales cycle just to test in Kannada.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What can we actually run in Kannada?
The full written suite: case studies, SJTs and MCQs, end to end in Kannada, on any plan — language support is included for every organisation, not sold separately.
Who decides between Kannada script and Roman?
The candidate, at the moment they start. Both renditions are generated automatically from your English original, so a candidate who reads Kannada script and one who types it in English letters take the same test.
Do mixed Kannada-English answers score lower?
No. An answer can move between the two mid-sentence — common in Bengaluru — and nothing about the mix changes the score.
Is there a Kannada voice interview?
Voice isn't in Kannada yet — today's AI voice interviews run in English and Hindi, with the other Indian languages on the voice roadmap. The written Kannada assessments on this page are all live now.
Half our Bengaluru applicants aren't from Karnataka. Does a Kannada assessment lock them out?
No — Kannada is an option, never a wall. Each candidate chooses their language when they begin, and English is always available; a delivery-fleet posting in Bengaluru can take one applicant in Kannada and the next in English, on the same rubric and the same scale.
How much work is it to add Kannada to an assessment?
Minutes, not a project. Author in English as normal, enable Kannada on that assessment, and the AI translation handles both scripts plus the candidate interface. No vendors, no review cycles.
We can't read Kannada answers. What do we review?
The English output — 0-100 scores per competency, a written rationale for each, and the full report. You never handle the Kannada text itself unless you want to.
Beyond Kannada, which languages can candidates test in?
Seven more: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali — eight in all. The multilingual assessments page walks through how each one works.
See a Kannada case study before you commit
Tell us what roles you're hiring in Karnataka — we'll walk you through a live assessment in Kannada script and Roman.