Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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Vancouver, BCPosted Feb 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews were very C-focused and felt like classic systems-y debugging plus data-structure coding.

One segment started with questions about pointers—things like dereferencing and pointer incrementing—then I moved into a more LeetCode-style challenge involving binary search trees. I knew broadly how to approach it, but I got tripped up by edge cases and it threw me off during the session. The expectation was also that I’d be able to compile and run the code by the end.

In another round that matched the same vibe, I used a shared SSH terminal and first talked through my background and projects. Then I debugged a small C program that had a segfault, and after I solved that, I wrote two

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