Sr. Software Engineer applicants have rated the interview process at Arista Networks with 2.9 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 58% positive. To compare, the company-average is 60.3% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Sr. Software Engineer roles take an average of 23 days to get hired, when considering 12 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at Arista Networks overall takes an average of 14 days.
Common stages of the interview process at Arista Networks as a Sr. Software Engineer according to 12 Glassdoor interviews include:
Phone interview: 30%
One on one interview: 26%
Skills test: 19%
Group panel interview: 7%
Other: 7%
Presentation: 4%
Personality test: 4%
Drug test: 4%
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I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Arista Networks in Feb 2025
Interview
30 minutes HR interview first for general questions. followed by
1 hour tech interview with engineers from the team. and then the final itech interview with two hiring mangers, one hour each. All via google meet. Tech interview were on coderpad and ssh
I applied online. I interviewed at Arista Networks
Interview
Had a 15 minute chat with the HR person, she started off by saying, "by dissecting my resume, she did not think I was a good fit for the role and would not move me forward. Then why did she setup the meeting?! Absolute waste of time. She went on to say because I did not want to relocate right away, interviewing with the hiring team was not possible. The job description said REMOTE!
I applied online. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Pune) in Jun 2026
Interview
First Assessment round , consist of mcq and 2 coding questions
second techincal round, Coderpad is used for this interview
Third Managerial round, Ask for previous project and alignment with new offered position
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
About Networking, Kernel, multithreading, Data Structure, OOPS
I applied through a recruiter. I interviewed at Arista Networks (Austin, TX) in Apr 2026
Interview
basics of c printfs. The patterns used in clg days was a bit confusing for a 15 yrs exp person like me. Dont know if its of any use on daily work as a SDE. Then BST programs 30mins 3 programs. Had written 2 and half and its correct for sure. Did ask for 5 extra mins to complete. But was denied.
Keep strong in basics and expect interviewer a SE asian to be strict on time. I thought i would be in for 2nd given i answered most of them. But was rejected.