Viasat·Software Engineer

Viasat Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted May 2017 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and it took what felt like a long stretch before a recruiter finally got back to me—about three months later.

The first step was a 60-minute technical phone interview. It started by pulling from my projects, so we talked through what I’d done before, but the rest of the questions shifted hard toward how I think about threading issues. I was asked about multi-threading, concurrency, and deadlocks, and there wasn’t any coding portion.

Overall it felt genuinely technical and focused, but I walked away feeling like the bar was more about conceptual correctness around tricky concurrent behavior than hands-on implementation. I didn’t get an offer after that round, and the experience left me with a clear

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