Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

The early rounds were grounded in operating systems and C: I covered topics like pointers and how compilation and execution work under the hood, with some DSA mixed in. One part that really stuck was debugging an erroneous C code snippet, where they expected me to reason through what the broken code was doing.

The final round felt more like a discussion of concepts and comparisons, including why Python could be slower than C and how compilation and running procedures differ. I remember also getting a lot of attention on my ability to explain rather than just produce code.

Not every round