Arista Networks Software Engineer interview experience

After completing an online assessment, I had a first screening that was long and focused: a 90-minute coding interview with multiple problems in C, C++, or Java. I got stuck spending too much time on the first LeetCode-style task about finding the first missing number in a consecutive array, and the interview ended there instead of continuing to the later problems. That made the difficulty feel real, not just “the usual basics.”

In a different attempt with the same kind of pipeline style, I was given study material for an extended period and then had to take technical tests that acted like