I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2024
Interview
Passed the first round of interview which was an hour and attended the second round of interview. This company interviews are a joke all questions are leaked on glassdoor and they expect memorized answers and give no room for creativity. Second round interviewer was a jerk & was not listening to my answers, was probably working on his office work typing away which put me off. Also, he swayed away from the original question he asked and intentionally kept me from solving the actual question asked and wasted all my time in solving an irrelevant scenario. I felt disrespected, would never recommend to work or interview with this joke of a company to anyone!
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Find the missing number in a continuous array 2. point out what would be the outputs for a bunch of pointer based code etc.
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