Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

For the coding portion, it was very hands-on and purely technical: I SSH’d into the interviewer’s laptop and solved a few LeetCode-style problems at roughly the easy/medium level. There wasn’t much conversation about my experience, projects, or history—just a tight focus on whether I could code.

A couple of rounds later, I had another round that centered on core computer science topics, with questions around things like linked lists, hashing, and then more pointer-focused material and general CSE fundamentals. The interview felt structured like an academic check of core knowledge, mostly