I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Bengaluru) in Jun 2022
Interview
1. Got an employee referral.
Interview consisted of two rounds for me
Round1: Normal leetcode stuff
Round 2: Random useless discussion with hiring manager.
Round 3 was supposed to be with director or someone which did not happen.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Round 1: 1. Merge intervals 2. Palindromic linked list
Round 2: This was supposed to be a LLD round. The hiring manager began my interview questioning my job switches in a sarcastic way. I felt very uncomfortable at this point and i could sense she had made her mind to reject me for my job hops and did the interview for namesake.
She just threw lots of theoretical questions to me like difference between POST and PUT, monolithic vs microservice, docker etc. to pass time of 1 hr. Very disappointed with the process .
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