Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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United StatesPosted Aug 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process started with a technical screen that was essentially a quick HackerRank-style problem, and after that I had a more in-depth technical interview that was closely tied to resume experience.

The interviewers asked me what language I preferred, but the actual technical portion ended up being in C, including questions that involved working with character pointers and writing code using a command-line editor like vi.

Across the coding portion, I kept seeing algorithmic tasks, but they were paired with a clear expectation that I understand the low-level details well enough to implement correctly. One interview included working on C topics like memory management and pointers, and there were algorithmic problems on top—so it wasn’t just “write code,” it was “write correct code with

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