Karat has launched Karat NextGen, the first human-led, AI-enabled talent evaluation solution designed to identify software engineers ready to excel in the human + AI era. This innovative interviewing approach mirrors modern engineering workflows and equips engineering leaders with the data to build high-quality, AI-ready teams.
Karat NextGen is the first human-led, AI-enabled interview solution for hiring AI-ready engineers.
The 2025-2026 AI Workforce Transformation Report predicts engineer ROI will triple with AI advancements.
Nearly 70% of engineering leaders plan to boost AI skills through strategic hiring.
Karat NextGen combines human interviewers with AI-native simulations and complex multi-file projects.
It ensures fairness and authenticity by distinguishing human skill from AI assistance.
The solution is available worldwide for enterprise and growth-stage engineering organizations.
The launch addresses the pressing need to update talent evaluation methods as AI reshapes software engineering. Karat NextGen reimagines technical interviews to reflect the reality of human and AI collaboration, enabling CTOs, CIOs, and VPs of Engineering to make more informed hiring decisions. Karat’s extensive dataset from over 600,000 interviews informs the benchmarking and continuous refinement of NextGen content to keep pace with rapid AI innovation.
As AI models evolve rapidly, Karat NextGen creates realistic interview environments where candidates work on complex projects integrating AI assistants. Expert Karat Interview Engineers probe technical reasoning, trade-offs, and judgment live to uncover true engineering capabilities.
David Lau, VP of Engineering at OpenAI, emphasizes the need for continuous reevaluation of how humans and AI collaborate at work. He notes, “To ride this wave of AI momentum, organizations must continually re-evaluate how they empower great people with the latest models, and design their software, workflows, tools, and hiring processes to let humans and AI multiply each other’s impact.”
By combining expert human interviewers with AI-enabled candidate projects, Karat NextGen offers a fair, effective way to identify engineers who will thrive in AI-enhanced workplaces. As Sagnik Nandy, CTO at DocuSign, states, “A human-led, AI-native interview is exactly the kind of solution organizations need to understand who can truly excel in this new model of development.”
Karat NextGen is ready for deployment in enterprise and growth-stage organizations aiming to stay competitive by building teams with AI-ready talent.
Karat helps engineering leaders make vital talent decisions with human-led and AI-enabled interviews. Trusted by companies like PayPal and Atlassian, Karat delivers live interviews led by trained engineers, AI-native simulations, and robust benchmarks to maximize visibility into real-world engineering performance.
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