J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 2 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Burnaby, BC) en oct. 2014
Entretien
The people in the office were friendly. The office space is bright and open, with no cubicle walls to hide behind. They seemed to be looking to hire only experienced people who can jump in and start, rather than training junior people.
The first interview was entirely technical, with questions about C and C++, and actually writing short programs. No HR questions about strengths and weaknesses.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
No question was really unexpected. I was asked about malloc versus new, allocating memory for two dimensional arrays, and the use of static and const. The programming tasks included things like finding the missing element in a sequence of numbers - and afterwards, the efficiency of my code in big O (and whether there is a more efficient algorithm).
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!