Karat·Software Engineer

Karat Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Positive

LagosPosted Dec 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

The interview started with a casual introduction from the interviewer, just enough to make things feel less cold.

After that, I had to talk through my background—my achievements and experiences, including how I’d handled challenges on previous projects—and I felt like it was meant to set context before the technical part.

Once that was done, I moved into a fairly mid-level algorithm question. It wasn’t presented as an ultra-hard puzzle; it felt like a practical test of whether I could reason through a typical coding interview problem in a clean way.

In the end, I didn’t receive an offer. My takeaway was that the process felt designed to quickly establish my history first, then immediately evaluate my

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