Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

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Vancouver, BCPosted Apr 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

After applying online, I heard back quickly and had the next week’s technical interview.

The difficulty felt difficult mainly because it went beyond generic coding and dug into networking fundamentals.

I was pulled into an in-depth conversation and problem-solving session that covered networking fundamentals, networking protocols, packet-level understanding, and troubleshooting. A lot of the questions were scenario-based, and what threw me off was how much they expected me to reason through how systems behave rather than just write code.

I didn’t get an offer. The experience was intense and left me thinking I’d need more scenario-style networking preparation to match their

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