J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks
Entretien
I applied through the university's Co-op office, and I got an offer to work in San Francisco office starting from this coming January. This early-October, I contacted the person, who gave me an offer, to change my start date. However, the response I got was from another person who works at Nashua, NH office, saying that I have been relocated to the Nashua office with a decrease in salary due to the company's "policy change". When I responded that I am confused with such sudden change since I already have been arranging a car lease and housing in SF, the person replied back saying that he doesn't understand why I have been doing that when I don't have an official offer letter. I thought that was very rude since Arista clearly did give me an offer through the university's office. If that's how Arista does its recruiting business, I wouldn't want to work for Arista anyway because I can already sense how the company treats its people. As a student, I don't mind too much about the salary decrease. But, let's be honest, would you work for Google if you need to work at the most random city where you don't have your family or friends around? If your engineers cannot properly handle both engineering and recruitment tasks, hire more HR people. This kind of recruitment process is just not acceptable.
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
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
Entretien moyen
Candidature
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!