Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

In the first coding interview, I had to use their own coding platform while sharing my screen and talk through my approach as I typed. The problems were practical algorithm-style tasks—one about simplifying a directory path and another about multiplying very large numbers. Feedback was minimal; the interviewer barely spoke and mostly stayed quiet while I worked.

The second part moved into a more system/debug flavor. I got time to write and debug code in an environment they controlled, where I had to use tooling like a terminal editor and debugging with GDB. The structure felt odd because the