I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Allahabad) in Jul 2014
Interview
The hiring process begins with a written test about aptitude,output questions in C and a program for which we have to write a detailed procedure. After that they selected some students for the interview rounds in which I was one of them.
The interview was both technical and hr .Firstly technical interview was taken and the questions included aptitude, data structures and algorithms.Then HR interview was taken .
After that they selected few students out of them and finally hired them.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1)How to find the size of an integer without using sizeof() keyword?
2)To check whether the binary format of a number is palindrome or not in most elegant manner?
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Arista Networks in Jun 2026
Interview
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
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