I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Viasat (Los Angeles, CA) in Jan 2016
Interview
Met a recruiter at a career fair and was offered an on campus interview that took place the next day. The interview lasted for around an hour, and was with a single interviewer. The interview began with some standard behavioral questions, description of a personal project, and then a single technical question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write an algorithm that determines if a binary tree is balanced or not.
A balanced binary tree is defined as one where for every node, its left and right subtrees differ in height by no more than 1.
I applied online and sent my resume in. They emailed me with a link to set up an online interview. The interview lasted about an hour. It was a good conversation
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Viasat (Amherst, MA) in Sep 2017
Interview
Fairly Simple, selected from Campus Recruitment. Spoke to the representative at the career fair, they were interested in me since I was a junior now and offered me an interview for the very next day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to get the duplicate elements from a list of numbers
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Viasat in Dec 2016
Interview
Met a representative at a career fair, and then got invited for an on-campus interview about a month later. Interview lasted about half an hour, and was pleasant overall. Had no technical questions, which was very surprising, since that's all I prepared for. Talked the whole time about my internship experiences, and my side projects.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a difficult team member, and how you did it.
Describe an "a-ha" moment when you were stuck while working on a project and finally figured it out.
Software Engineering applicants have rated the interview process at Viasat with 2.1 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 79% positive. To compare, the company-average is 64.5% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Software Engineering roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 14 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Viasat overall takes an average of 28 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Viasat as a Software Engineering according to 14 Glassdoor interviews include:
One on one interview: 32%
Skills test: 24%
Phone interview: 24%
Background check: 8%
Personality test: 4%
Presentation: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
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