Viasat·Software Engineer

Viasat Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

New York, NYPosted Jan 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I applied online and then had an initial call with a recruiter followed by a call with the hiring manager.

The hiring manager conversation was mostly about my experience and my history, and I didn’t get pulled into any specific technical question.

What stood out was how directly the feedback gap showed up: I was rejected without any meaningful comments. My guess was that they were searching for someone with very specific prior technology experience, particularly Java, Scala, Spark, and Kafka. Even though I felt I had relevant experience to discuss, the lack of technical evaluation and the rejection with no feedback made it feel like they were filtering based more on exact matching than on

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