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      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      Jul 2, 2026
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      Sydney
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Sydney) in Jun 2026

      Interview

      The process was well laid out and fair. It was technical in nature, which of course makes sense because this is a technical position. According to the recruiter there were 4 parts of the interview process: a phone call from the recruiter, a remote interview with an engineer, a face-to-face interview with the hiring manager and a phone interview with a director. I passed the 2 first, but failed the 3rd. The phone conversation with the recruiter was more exploratory in nature. She would ask some questions about my profile and explain what Arista is and what the role entails. Second interview is remote with an engineer. The give you access to an SSH server. In it you land on a BASH shell with a folder named "exercise". Inside that folder there are several folders (in my case 6 if I recall correctly) with exercises. The interviewer asked me to solve 2 of those exercises (which can have 2 or more parts). Then at the end we had time for questions. Third interview was face-to-face with the hiring manager and another engineer, in their offices. We were in a meeting room. They each had a laptop, and there was an extra computer for me to use. In it, the same (or very similar) BASH shell from the second interview was visible. They asked me to use it for the interview. There were several technical questions, related to the Linux environment. There were also questions related to a BASH exercise and a system design question. After this interview, my application was rejected

      Interview questions [7]

      Question 1

      2nd interview, Q1: Fix a Kubernetes deployment. They had a yml file with a k8s deployment that needed fixing.
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      Question 2

      2nd interview, Q2: write a BASH script or one-liner that sorts a file by a specific column and returns the highest entries
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      Question 3

      3rd interview, Q1: Explain the header of the top command
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      Question 4

      3rd int, Q2: Execute a command
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      Question 5

      3rd int, Q3: Explain permissions on a file "-rwxr-xr-x-"
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      Question 6

      3rd int, Q4: BASH exercise. From a list of phone numbers, remove the ones with the wrong format. Part 2 was to count the 3 highest area codes
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      Question 7

      3rd int, Q5: A user says they can't connect to a server. What do you do?
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      Other Site Reliability Engineer Interview Reviews for Arista Networks

      Site Reliability Engineer Interview

      Jul 9, 2023
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Arista Networks in Sep 2022

      Interview

      First round is screen by a senior engineering, the engineer is nice. Second round is with hiring manager in US. HR suggest watch their CTO's presentation on youtube to understand their culture. The hiring manager in US is very rude, no respect at all.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Bash, SQL and some k8s trouble shooting; look like they expect you give answer without thinking or even a typo.
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