Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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Vancouver, BCPosted Jun 2026 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My experience began with live coding, and the format was pretty direct: I had a technical session where I joined an interviewer and had to complete a live technical assessment in Java.

The interview lasted about an hour and was broken into several parts, covering things like string and array manipulation.

After that, the process felt like it might be headed toward deeper rounds—there was a phone screen first, and then I moved into a technical screen where I made it through. But when it came to the next technical round, I couldn’t get past it, and the feedback I ended up thinking about afterward was that they were looking for more confidence with template programming and that the interviewer might try to see whether I’d doubt my own answers.

Overall, the journey felt

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