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Software Engineer Interview Experience

October 1, 2018
Negative ExperienceNo Offer

Process

There were two phone screen interviews.

The first one was good. The interviewer asked questions about the size of the structure, the complexity of some given functions, and one coding exercise about finding the missing number in an array.

Two weeks later, there was a second interview, which took 2 hours with 2 interviewers, 1 hour for each. The experience was bad.

There were only trivial and tricky but difficult questions, such as using C to implement C++ OOP features and allocating a 2D array with just one malloc, which will not be used in real work and study at all. The interviewers were not willing to communicate while I was coding.

Overall, the process was too stressful, and I did not get an offer.

Questions

Allocate memory for a 2D array with only one malloc.

Use C++ to implement C++ class inheritance and virtual functions.

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 156 interview experiences for the Arista Networks Software Engineer role in United States.

Success Rate

21%
Pass Rate

Arista Networks's interview process for their Software Engineer roles in the United States is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.

Experience Rating

Positive50%
Neutral31%
Negative19%

Candidates reported having very good feelings for Arista Networks's Software Engineer interview process in United States.

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