Karat
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy only if you're a large org hiring many engineers and lack senior interviewer bandwidth . it's a premium human service used by Atlassian and Walmart-scale companies.
Comparison
Karat and Codility both land on Depends.
Buy only if you're a large org hiring many engineers and lack senior interviewer bandwidth . it's a premium human service used by Atlassian and Walmart-scale companies.
Buy if you're an enterprise screening hundreds of engineering candidates and need proctoring, compliance, and ATS integration.
| Compare | Karat | Codility |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | High-volume engineering hiring | Enterprise tech hiring at volume |
| Who it's not for | Small teams making a few hires a year | Startups hiring 1-2 engineers a year |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.² | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. |
| Support quality | No evidence in sources. | No support-quality evidence in sources |
| Public sentiment | Candidate reviews skew negative, especially for senior roles, though G2 buyer ratings average 4.2/5.⁷ | Employers and review sites rate Codility highly, while developer-candidates widely complain the tests are hard, confusing, and opaquely scored. |
| Biggest gotcha | Per-interview pricing snowballs with hiring volume; budget before scaling11 | Pricing starts around $1,200/year on the Starter plan |