Viasat Software Engineer interview experience (2018)

Viasat Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Easy

Negative

United StatesPosted Dec 2018 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I got contacted after applying online through my school’s channel, and the scheduling was a little chaotic right from the start: the call was set for late morning, but the interviewer joined about an hour late to reschedule later the same day.

Once we connected, the interview was still fairly typical at the beginning with standard behavioral questions.

Then it got oddly specific and technical in a way that threw me off. I was asked about the runtime of a very trivial algorithm based on something from a project I’d worked on, and the interviewer insisted my runtime analysis was wrong even when I walked through my reasoning again. The confusion was compounded by a separate question about SQL usage, where my approach with natural joins was treated as incorrect and the interviewer pressed for inner joins instead, even though I had

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Viasat Software Engineer interview experience

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