J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 1 semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC) en juin 2016
Entretien
Applied online. Got phone screening. Asked about past work experiences. Basic c functions, such as pointers, malloc, and zombie process. How would you implement malloc give 1GB space in memory. And then moved on to actual programming in a Linux environment.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1. How would you implement malloc give 1GB space in memory.
2. Write a program to detect palindrome in C, had to be case insensitive, and able to handle empty string.
3. Find the sum of the 3rd numbers in a file with multiple lines of numbers in Python.
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks en juin 2026
Entretien
Pros:
Great initial approach – the recruiter thoroughly checked my GitHub profile and projects before the interview, which is very uncommon and shows they do their homework.
Cons:
A major mismatch between the job description ("Software Engineer C++") and the actual interview reality. The technical stage on CoderPad strictly tests bare-metal C98 skills: raw pointers, manual bitwise operations, and packing bytes into 64-bit integers. If you are accustomed to modern C++ (RAII, templates, safe memory management), this will feel like a massive step backward. Additionally, the time expectations for live low-level bit-shifting were unrealistic, to the point where the interviewer started solving the task themselves.
Interview was kind and not stressful, just minor mismatch of naming
J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC)
Entretien
Pretty good, not too complicated, was comfortable. Mostly LC questions, and was easy enough that you should be able to do it after doing NC150. good luck for the interview!
Starts with online test, then three rounds of technical interviews follow.
Not a lot of discussion, just go straight to the technical challenges which have to be solved in time