Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Arista Networks
Entrevista
Interview was at their office with team lead or manager. He asked me to program variation of binary search in C and started watching me do it on his PC constantly smiling and making faces if I struggle for a moment or if I make and correct a mistake. Very unpleasant guy.
Next day they invited me to talk with another manager asking behavioral questions etc.
They came up with a offer which was way below what I expected, so I immediately said no. They tried to negotiate but not much.
Overall unpleasant experience. It was a waste of time for me.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Find missing number in sorted array of integers. Implement function that returns missing number in C.
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en Arista Networks en jun 2026
Entrevista
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
Solicité el puesto a través de un captador. Acudí a una entrevista en Arista Networks (Łódź, Lódz) en jun 2026
Entrevista
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.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
List implementation, bits counting, tre traversal.
Acudí a una entrevista en Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC)
Entrevista
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!