J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Burnaby, BC)
Entretien
The process started with email communications with a recruiter. He sent a long email containing the information about the process and interviews with a sample question. The process was really fast. I received a response within an hour. Two people conducted my screen interview. One was friendly, and the other was arrogant. They brought a laptop with 9 premade questions. An interviewer randomly selected questions. At the end, one interviewer refused to shake hands and didn't fully escort me to the entrance. Within a day, I received a one line insincere rejection email. It seems that the company doesn't have any respect to people whom they think worthless.
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