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Software Engineer Interview Experience - Santa Clara, California

August 1, 2016
Neutral ExperienceNo Offer

Process

Applied online, recruiter mailed next day. 1st round phone interview. 2nd round onsite.

The phone interview was exactly what other interviewees have described. For the onsite, I wouldn't say the interview questions themselves were difficult, but it was hard to understand what the interviewer asked. Rather than giving hints, the interviewer just gave away the answers. This doesn't test your thinking process, making it a really flawed way of conducting interviews.

Anyway, here are some tips:

  • Be cautious about function arguments. Use const and pass by reference when appropriate.
  • Understand average and worst-case running time analysis (which is very common).
  • LeetCode doesn't help much for the onsite, but it does help for the phone interview.

Questions

Will respect NDA.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 20 interview experiences for the Arista Networks Software Engineer role in Santa Clara, California.

Success Rate

45%
Pass Rate

Arista Networks's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in Santa Clara, California is fairly selective, failing a large portion of engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive55%
Neutral20%
Negative25%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Arista Networks's Software Engineer interview process in Santa Clara, California.

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