I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arista Networks (New York, NY)
Interview
Applied via career site, recruiter reached out and after a month interview was scheduled. Three rounds in total. First two rounds were coding and third round was hiring manager round. One interviewer got confused even though I was explaining same approach and later confused me as well. Interviewer was adamant on solving it in his way only and because of this I wasn't able to solve it completely. I was expecting offer but disappointed that they rejected because of one round where I solved only 2/3 questions. But what was more disappointing was rejection feedback saying technical lack. Well if they consider someone to lack technical skills by testing coding alone and not testing anything apart from it, I wouldn't have applied to role. I suggest people reading this not waste your time applying at such company.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
would you apply to a company where only coding is considered as technical skill and nothing else? Will you be happy if you get rejection email saying technical skills when they haven't even tested anything apart from coding?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Arista Networks in June 2026
Interview
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
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