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Arista Networks Interview Questions & Reviews
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Software Development Engineer at Arista Networks
No Offer – Reviewed Oct 4, 2012
Interview Details – Got a email from the recruiter to setup a telephone interview. Had to give it on SSH client ( Putty)
Interview Question –
Was quite easy - Delete a nodes with a particular value from a linked list ( where the value is passed to the function).
Algorithm was v simple , but the focus of the interviewer was on the variables, syntax and stuff. Not worth it :)
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Software Development Engineer at Arista Networks
No Offer – Interviewed in Sep 2012 – Reviewed Oct 3, 2012
Interview Details –
Had an initial phone screen round which had questions from Tress and Linked lists.
1. Remove duplicate elements from a list
2. Find inorder successor in BST.
Had to do it in shared terminal.
The second round had questions on implementing a stack using C which would take any type of data type(int, float, structure). Third round was asked on GNU debugger and debug a code using GNU debugger and what surprised me was that they expected to know the internals of GDB, like what register has what value types.
Interview Question – They asked me questions on GDB and details of why registers are filled up these values and those sort of questions. Answer Question
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Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Accepted Offer – Reviewed Sep 8, 2012
Interview Details –
Interview consisted of testing and coding questions. The questions were not too tough,
however.
Negotiation Details – The company does not negotiate. The offer was reasonable and I just accepted.
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Platform Engineer at Arista Networks
No Offer – Reviewed Aug 24, 2012
Interview Details –
A phone interview followed by on-site interview with a panel of interviewers.
The Good - Quite challenging and interesting, I agree they're smart.
The Bad - They will exchange comments about you right when you're there (never seen that before). If you're a senior person but not ex-Cisco or Stanford graduate, I would say don't bother to attend.
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Software Engineer at Arista Networks
No Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) Aug 2012 – Reviewed Aug 1, 2012
Interview Details – Direct onsite interview
Interview Questions
- Write a procedure to delete all occurrences of a node in a singly linked list. Answer Question
- Implement strcpy; implement this using command line arguments. Answer Question
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What will be the sizeof the following structure on a 32-bit machine:
struct s
{
int i;
char c;
long d;
void *p;
int a[0];
}; View Answers (3)
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Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Declined Offer – Interviewed in Bangalore (India) May 2012 – Reviewed Jul 29, 2012
Interview Details – 1 telephonic followed by 2 rounds of onsite interview
Interview Question – Explain what would happen if data segment of program started from address 0? View Answer
Reason for Declining –
- Compensation is way below average for Bangalore
- I had done research through friends on "number of stocks offered by Arista in US office" and the number they offered to me was less than half of US. Luckily for me - my friend with similar experience and skill set interviewed in US and got an offer after I interviewed with them. So, I had numbers of compare.
- HR manage in Bangalore office was rude and said "Even though you don't have relevant experience we are ready to offer you and give you an opportunity to learn." Really? Nice try!
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Software Engineer at Arista Networks
No Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2012 – Reviewed May 21, 2012
Interview Details –
Interview is pretty straightforward C questions. WIth some OS kernel knowledges.
Onsite is kinda irregular. only one round one person then meet the CEO.
Interview Questions
- delete all the nodes in a linked list with a specific value View Answers (2)
- onsite question is: design a stack used by multiple users. Any datatype could be pushed into the stack including self defined struct. only In C. How to do error handling in C compared to C++. How to handle memory leak if the stack method failed. View Answer
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Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Mar 2012 – Reviewed Apr 7, 2012
Interview Details – Data structure such as tree and linked list
Interview Question – Data structure such as tree and linked list Answer Question
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Engineering at Arista Networks
Accepted Offer – Interviewed in Jan 2010 – Reviewed Jan 3, 2012
Interview Details – Tough technical questioning with challenging questions. Very positive and did a good job of really making me present the breadth of my skills (strengths and weaknesses)
Interview Question – Detailed step by step process of OSPF inner workings Answer Question
Negotiation Details – Not a lot of room for negotiation
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Software Engineer at Arista Networks
No Offer – Interviewed in Oct 2011 – Reviewed Dec 1, 2011
Interview Details – One on one short interview. The interviewer spent lost of time telling me about the company. Then gave me some basic programming tests such as the binary search. Need to know C++!
Interview Question – Find the minimum member of a binary tree Answer Question
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