Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

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CanadaPosted Jun 2021 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with an HR manager call after I submitted my resume online, and I had to talk through my project experience.

A few days later, scheduling kicked in and I got a coding challenge set up over SSH. The login credentials were provided up front, and I had to connect to their server to write and run code in the terminal environment.

For the technical portion, I went through a couple of live coding questions. The format felt very “remote workstation” oriented: I used SSH and edited through tools like vim, with the prompts appearing in the session while interviewers watched. When it came to the questions, it was mostly standard algorithmic problem-solving—medium-style prompts in a language of my choice in

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