Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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Nashua, NHPosted Jan 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My path felt like it moved from writing code in a real environment to a bigger evaluation step.

First I had an initial round coding exercise with an engineer, and then a later round with a manager that focused on memory management—specifically malloc/free style design. The discussions made it clear they wanted strong C fundamentals, even though the broader role description leaned C++.

At a later stage, I also had to complete a take-home OA-style assignment, then schedule an interview after that. The interview that followed was about an hour long with a medium LeetCode-like question, and I had to SSH into their server to solve it. The work needed to be compiled and debugged in a UNIX

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