Checkr

Automated background check platform
Last updated:
February 3, 2026
Company details
HQ
HEADCOUNT
500-999
ORG TYPE
Startup
SECTOR
Professional Services
About the company
Checkr sells background screening software that helps employers run checks faster and with more automation, including workflows like identity, criminal, and verification products. Checkr positions the platform as “safe and fair decisions,” with a heavy emphasis on candidate experience alongside compliance. Checkr also runs fair-chance initiatives through Checkr.org, including apprenticeship-style pathways aimed at expanding access to work. Public job postings show Checkr hiring across engineering, customer success, operations, and go-to-market roles.
Locations and presence
Checkr publicly describes a hybrid setup built around hub offices, with repeated references to Denver and San Francisco plus a Chile presence in Santiago, and role postings that also include Nashville. Checkr also advertises some Remote (United States) roles, but many early-career postings include set in-office expectations.
Palpable Score
67.2
/ 100
Checkr offers a real early-career on-ramp via a structured Engineering Intern role plus a small number of “Associate” and early-tenure commercial roles with clear expectations and pay ranges. The score is capped by uneven public evidence on early-career progression and by recent large-scale layoffs that add perceived risk for first-job stability.
Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

13.4
/ 20
  • The company currently lists a Summer 2026 Engineering Intern role with a defined 10-week program and multiple engineering team options (software, platform, data, AI/ML).
  • Checkr also hires “near-entry” roles like Associate Customer Success Manager (1+ years) and Enterprise Business Development Representative (9–12 months preferred), which can be reachable for grads with internships or a first job.
  • The company’s early-career access still looks concentrated in a few pathways rather than a broad, recurring spread of 0–3 year roles across most functions.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

14.7
/ 20
  • The company publishes a repeatable Pay Transparency Disclosure inside postings and includes concrete ranges, which reduces wasted interviews for early-career candidates.
  • Checkr has a public engineering interview write-up describing a loop that uses practical exercises (refactoring, building a small system) and shares what to expect ahead of time.
  • The company has candidate reports describing reschedules, sponsorship filtering late in the process, and role-mismatch questioning, which signals inconsistency by team.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

14.5
/ 20
  • The company frames the internship as “high-value engineering projects” and explicitly calls out learning areas like observability, incident response, and AI-integrated tooling across different teams.
  • Checkr describes the Associate Customer Success Manager role as a talent-building feeder into more senior CSM tracks, in a pooled model designed for learning customer success at scale.
  • The company lists concrete support benefits like education reimbursement and employee resource groups, but Checkr does not publish a clear early-career leveling rubric or onboarding plan by function.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

14.1
/ 20
  • The company posts specific pay numbers for early-career pathways, including $35/hr for the Engineering Intern role and a stated base/OTE range for the Associate CSM role in Nashville.
  • Checkr also lists meaningful stability benefits (100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision, plus wellness and learning allowances) that matter for graduates weighing total compensation.
  • The company went through a large workforce reduction in April 2024, which raises stability risk for juniors even with severance support described publicly.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

10.5
/ 20
  • The company publicly celebrated graduates from a 12-month Fair Chance Apprenticeship Program, which is direct evidence of at least one cohort-based pathway reaching completion.
  • Checkr has continued to post internships (including the currently listed Summer 2026 Engineering Intern), which supports repeat early-career hiring rather than a one-off program.
  • The company does not publish intern conversion rates, early-career promotion timelines, or retention metrics, and the April 2024 layoffs create uncertainty around near-term progression outcomes.

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