Karat·Software Engineer

Karat Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

CanadaPosted Oct 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I remember being surprised by how much Karat tried to incorporate “learning” before a final decision.

What they called onboarding felt more like an extension of the interview process: I studied their learning materials for a while and did a couple of practice interviews, then still got rejected after about a week.

The part that threw me off was that it didn’t feel like optional preparation. It felt like a gating step happening after I’d already reached the later stages. Even though it’s framed as onboarding, it had the psychological weight of still being evaluated.

In the end, I didn’t get an offer. My honest reflection was that the process made it easy to invest time and momentum, only to

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