Envié una solicitud electrónica. Acudí a una entrevista en Arista Networks
Entrevista
Recruiter called and explained the role properly. Scheduled one round. After that round ghosted me and another recruiter called me after 1.5 weeks. The 2nd recruiter was really rude and had no manners to talk over the phone. I had a full calendar and she was not able to understand my problem and was speaking as if she was scolding a child. I am an experienced professional and I didn’t appreciate being talked to that way.
Preguntas de entrevista [1]
Pregunta 1
Asked Networking Questions in what was supposed to be a Frontend Interview. DNS, TLS etc
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
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!
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