Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Neutral

Vancouver, BCPosted Dec 2023 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My interviews started with C++/C-style coding questions that focused on core data structures and arrays, and it stayed in that lane for the first round.

The second round shifted hard into application-style technical work: I had to create APIs and a data structure, and the interviewer kept adding more requirements in a way that made the problem feel like it was expanding midstream.

At some point the tone deteriorated—there was rudeness and a lack of willingness to listen to my explanation. It felt like the focus was less on collaborating through reasoning and more on getting to a specific answer the interviewer had in mind. Python decorators came up as well, which added to the impression that the round was testing breadth beyond just one

Create a free Dataford account to unlock the full round-by-round breakdown, the questions asked and the outcome.

Read the full report Read the full report

Preparing for this interview?

Arista Networks Software Engineer interview guideThe full process, round by round, with the question bank Practice Software Engineer interview questionsReal questions from this role across companies All Arista Networks interview guidesEvery role we cover at this company