Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Positive

Vancouver, BCPosted Oct 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a multi-step process where speed seemed to matter a lot.

Even though I could work through the tasks and the code ran, I still didn’t make it through—there was a sense that the evaluation was more about how fast I could complete under the clock than about the quality of my final reasoning.

The interview itself felt like it dragged through too many stages, and the overall chance of finishing everything seemed slim. That pacing pressure made it hard to keep a calm, deliberate approach, and it changed how I experienced even the questions that I otherwise knew how to answer.

In the end, I didn’t get an offer. Looking back, the most memorable part

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