AI Overlay for Karat Interview Engineer Sessions on Mac
Karat is a third-party interview service: a contracted Interview Engineer (IVE), who is a working software developer, runs your hour-long technical screen on behalf of a hiring company. The session happens over video with screen sharing and is recorded for the recruiter and for Karat internal quality review.
Karat is the highest-monitoring scenario among modern coding interviews because a real human is on the other end of the call watching you work in real time. The IVE joins through Karat browser-based interview console: a fully-toolled IDE, a webcam panel, a screen-share panel, and a notes pane. The 60-minute session typically runs 10 to 15 minutes of behavioral and domain warmup followed by 40 to 45 minutes of programming.
No. The IVE screen-share feed is the output of macOS getDisplayMedia, which strips windows marked private before any frame leaves the kernel.
No. The recording is encoded from the same stream the IVE saw.
No. Karat internal reviewers watch the recorded video, which is the post-filter stream.
The webcam shows your face, not your screen.
No. Karat interviews run entirely in the browser.
Need reference access during your exam?
Fracture runs a native floating overlay that sets the macOS window privacy flag. It is 100% excluded from screen capture feeds, window lists, and proctor recordings.