Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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Negative

IrelandPosted Mar 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I went through a fast, end-of-day style run where the format started strong and then fell apart.

I had several interviews scheduled back to back. In the earlier round, things went reasonably well, but later interviews got derailed by interviewer behavior and logistics—timing issues, unclear pacing, and people who didn’t seem engaged.

When I finally got to a technical question involving tree traversal, I was actively working and even had the right direction, but the person running it was disengaged and rushed me through while dropping away mid-stream. In another round, the final stage felt disinterested and centered on debugging with C strings, and when the interviewer got frustrated,

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