Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Mar 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I kicked things off with a mix of general conversation and technical direction, then moved into live coding on a remote setup.

I was asked to write a Java program focused on array manipulation, and I also hit a debugging-style question. The format felt pretty structured: one round was coding plus debugging, and then the later technical conversation leaned into more Java coding with harder problem areas—at one point dynamic programming came up.

After that, I did another technical session with engineers, and the final stage shifted to two hiring managers, each running about an hour. The whole thing ran over video calls, and the coding environment varied between a browser-style platform and SSH access. Across rounds,

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