J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. Le processus a pris 2 jours. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks
Entretien
The first interview was a face to face interview. It was all technical questions, the interviewer gave me problems in her laptop and had me figure out things through source code. One of them is deleting nodes in the linked list, and to debug some code.
Made it to the 2nd interview, where they interview you through phone and SSH to their computer. They ask about building data structures and how to handle memory management. I think I did pretty well, for I was able to answer almost all of the questions correctly if not all of them correctly. It was pretty sad when they said they can't go through to the 2nd part. The interviewer said that they were very picky at that time, I guess they just want to advertise their company in that manner.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
They ask questions about time complexity, in different scenarios.
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 postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Łódź, Lódz) en juin 2026
Entretien
Reached round 3 out of 4 planned, one was coding task, two live coding sessions. Linux development background was highly expected. Performance optimized approach was tested, specially oriented for hardware with lots of resources. I had a problem to properly understand reqruiting person during round 3, voice was not clear for me.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
List implementation, bits counting, tre traversal.
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!