Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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TurkeyPosted Jul 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started when a recruiter reached out directly.

The first step was a HackerRank test with a single question. It was easy in difficulty, but I got the surprise: they expected a perfect score to continue, and that requirement alone made the stage feel much more intense than the question suggested.

After that, I went into remote interviews over a terminal setup where I solved classic algorithms on a server. They didn’t care as much about perfect syntax in C/C++ as they cared about how I approached the problem and what algorithm I chose. The second interview was similar but with a hard problem, and I had the flexibility to use whichever

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