Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Hard

Negative

GreecePosted Aug 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

Some parts of the process were frustrating mainly because of how the interviews were run rather than the difficulty of the technical content.

In one experience, I was met with a very low-level C questioning style with little time to do everything correctly. The interviewer didn’t really help, and the interaction felt adversarial in a way that made it hard to recover once a mistake happened.

I also ran into scheduling and communication problems that threw me off early on. One time the recruiter kept forgetting to schedule the interview, and after I reached out again it felt like they couldn’t keep track of our earlier conversation. Eventually I did get an interview, but it ended up being with a junior engineer and focused on

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