Interview was standard, 1st round was just a phone call to feel out the candidate. Second round I received an easy leetcode question. The environment they had you code in was a bit tricky though, I had to code through a remote session on my terminal with vim and run and debug the file with make and gdb.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Austin, TX) in Sep 2024
Interview
I had a first-round interview where we first discussed a bit about my background and later I had to program a basic leet code problem involving pointers and linked lists
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you access/keep track of a previous node in a singly linked list when iterating through the list.
I applied online. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Vancouver, BC) in Aug 2022
Interview
after applying, got a response quickly in two days.
Then a quick phone call from HR.
If you meet the basic requirements, you will receive a mail to schedule and confirm a video meeting.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Once the meeting begin, SSH to their server and start to code using Vim.
The question to find the fibonacci series from a linked list and print.
the linkedlist is:
struct node {
char value;
struct node* next;
}
Candidates applying for Junior Software Engineer roles take an average of 28 days to get hired, when considering 1 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Arista Networks overall takes an average of 14 days.
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