Viasat Software Engineer interview experience

I sat down for an internal interview with a PM, and during that discussion I was told I would be relieved from a contract because budget changes came up after a government contract reduction.

That immediately changed the purpose of the interview from “getting placed” to “finding a transfer,” and it shifted the emotional tone of the entire process. I was no longer thinking about the usual interview outcome so much as trying to understand how quickly I could land elsewhere.

It was a difficult moment because it showed that even once the interview pipeline made progress, external timing and