Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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IrelandPosted Mar 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process moved through multiple stages and leaned heavily into networking and systems foundations.

I started with a long technical phone call that lasted around an hour, and it was followed by behavioral discussion. Then I had to write a technical paper on something networks-related, which stood out as the most time-consuming part of the whole journey.

After the paper, I ended up in a panel interview that felt like a final gate. At that point I was told I might be asked to fix a lab, but the people running it were clearly rooting for me to succeed. The technical questions themselves stayed relatively basic, but they still expected I’d be solid on networks and Linux fundamentals. I felt

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