J'ai postulé via une autre source. Le processus a pris 4 semaines. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Toronto, ON) en sept. 2024
Entretien
Was reached out by HR on Linkedin for this role. HR was polite and gave an overview about the role and hiring process. They were quite accommodating with scheduling the coding round giving some time for prep. The coding round was conducted by 1 senior engineer. Gave overview about different arista product teams and nature of work. Then was asked to login to coderpad. There was a problem to find the issue in a C program. Then a second question related to linked lists. The interviewer was polite and provided prompts/suggestions when stuck in coding.
Had an overall positive experience. Would definitely recommend to apply here.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Q. What will be the output of the following program? find the bug here and then some follow up questions with more code changes.
#define BUFFER_LEN 5
struct bufferT buffer {
int buffer[BUFFER_LEN];
int index;
};
int main(void)
{
struct bufferT bufferObj;
for (bufferObj.index = 0; bufferObj.index <= BUFFER_LEN; bufferObj.index++)
{
bufferObj.buffer[bufferObj.index] = 0;
}
printf("buffer value = %d\n", bufferObj.buffer[0]);
return 0;
}
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