J'ai postulé via la recommandation d'un employé. Le processus a pris plus d'une semaine. J'ai passé un entretien chez Arista Networks (Santa Clara, CA)
Entretien
First round was onsite. Standard questions- delete nodes of a value from a linked list, size of a given structure on 32 bit machine, one code to debug (read up about argc argv). Coding was done directly in the terminal.
Second round consisted of 2 one hour interviews. At the start of the first interview, the interviewer told upfront that there would not be a second round if things didn't go well. Proceeded to make me design a stack api for a generic stack. Used a dynamic array to design it. Google for "programming paradigms stanford generic stack" for details and a youtube video. Asked questions about implementation of memcpy, memove etc. How is the free memory managed in heap? How many push/extra copy if we resize the dynamic array for storing the stack by 2x each time it becomes full? At the end of the first hour- said sorry this doesn't seem to be a good fit. Was quite shocked as I had answered all the questions OK. Did not really get a feel of what the interviewer was expecting.
Seems like a stanford/cisco stronghold. Won't go so far as to say they are biased, but I got a mixed impression. Give it is shot.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
stack api, delete nodes from linked list, size of structure, code to debug.
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