J'ai postulé via un recruteur. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Pune) en déc. 2025
Entretien
t took me nearly a week to prepare and required planning two days of office leave to attend the face-to-face interview rounds at the Pune office. All interview rounds went well, with two interviewers in each round, including the final round with the Director. Throughout the process, the hiring team expressed satisfaction with my performance, discussed salary expectations, and asked about my joining timeline, which naturally raised expectations.
However, it has now been more than a month, and I have not received any offer
This lack of follow-up after extensive in-person interviews reflects poorly on the candidate experience and raises concerns about process accountability. If there was no intent to proceed, it would have been both professional and respectful to communicate that decision in a timely manner instead of keeping candidates in prolonged uncertainty.
I strongly urge senior leadership and HR to review the interview and hiring practices of the Pune team and implement clear ownership, timelines, and communication standards. Calling candidates for multiple in-person rounds without closure wastes time, effort, and emotional investment, and ultimately damages the organization’s employer brand.
I hope this feedback is taken seriously and leads to concrete corrective actions.
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Question 1
There are multiple questions on background, Projects you did and around it
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