There were 3 interviews scheduled. 1st interview went very well. In the second interview, the person had muted his mic and even I had solved the question, he didn't say a single word. I had to say myself, "can you check the answer now". He then moved to next question that was inorder tree traversal. Initially I wasn't able to solve it as one check was missing and the function was never going to the right side. He started saying we will not be moving with you, while he was saying, I solved the question but he left the meeting. Asked next person not to take my interview and next person didn't appear at all.
Very bad experience, I will ask everyone not to waste their time with this company.
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