What a Karat Interview Involves
Karat provides interviewing-as-a-service — a trained Interview Engineer runs a structured, recorded session:
- Live Interview Engineer — a real interviewer watches and probes your reasoning
- Session recording — the interview is recorded for the hiring company to review
- Shared code editor — you code live while the interviewer watches keystrokes
- Screen share — in many rounds you share your screen
- Structured rubric — scored on approach, communication and correctness
Why Alt-Tab and Browser Extensions Fail on Karat
A Karat session is watched and recorded, and the Interview Engineer expects you to talk through your approach. Alt-tabbing is visible on the screen share, pasting shows as a sudden block, and a perfect answer with no reasoning is the obvious tell. UFOlee keeps the AI in an overlay off the screen share, you type your own version with hardware keystrokes, and you narrate normally.
How UFOlee Works with Karat
Treat UFOlee as a quiet reference during the Karat round, not an autopilot:
- Launch UFOlee and log into your preferred AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) before starting the test
- Open your Karat assessment — UFOlee runs invisibly in the background
- Press Ctrl+Shift+S to reveal UFOlee's stealth browser overlay on top of Karat
- Press Ctrl+Shift+A to screenshot the question and automatically attach it to your AI chat
- Read the AI-generated solution, then highlight the answer or code you need
- Press Ctrl+Shift+F — UFOlee auto-types it into Karat using native hardware keystrokes
- Press Ctrl+Shift+S to hide UFOlee and review your work
Works With Karat On
- Structured technical phone screens
- Data-structures and algorithms rounds
- Manual and behavioural questions
- Rounds paired with Zoom, Meet or Teams