J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC) en oct. 2025
Entretien
The interview process was very swift and straightforward, and both my interviewers were friendly and professional. The first interview was a technical screening round, with some basic C debugging where I had to reason about why a program was stalling infinitely, and then a question that had me write a function to work with a simple data structure. I'll note that the debugging question did have some nuance as to why the program failed, relating to how data is stored in memory, and the interviewer cared much more about me explaining *why* the program failed, rather than just where it failed. The second interview was an open ended technical interview, where I was asked to implement a simple data structure, and had to explain my design decisions and then make a couple of revisions as new requirements became exposed (for example, how did my structure account for managing elements with no default constructor)? I got the final say of yes or no by the end of the second interview, and an offer followed shortly after. Overall, as long as you know your stuff well, the interviews should be pretty easy - just make sure you're brushed up on your C++, and have taken some time to make sure you understand the nuances of memory allocation, and classes/structs/OOP.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
Write me a stack in C++ (left intentionally vague)
J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks en juin 2026
Entretien
Pros:
Great initial approach – the recruiter thoroughly checked my GitHub profile and projects before the interview, which is very uncommon and shows they do their homework.
Cons:
A major mismatch between the job description ("Software Engineer C++") and the actual interview reality. The technical stage on CoderPad strictly tests bare-metal C98 skills: raw pointers, manual bitwise operations, and packing bytes into 64-bit integers. If you are accustomed to modern C++ (RAII, templates, safe memory management), this will feel like a massive step backward. Additionally, the time expectations for live low-level bit-shifting were unrealistic, to the point where the interviewer started solving the task themselves.
Interview was kind and not stressful, just minor mismatch of naming
J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC)
Entretien
Pretty good, not too complicated, was comfortable. Mostly LC questions, and was easy enough that you should be able to do it after doing NC150. good luck for the interview!
Starts with online test, then three rounds of technical interviews follow.
Not a lot of discussion, just go straight to the technical challenges which have to be solved in time