Software Engineering Interview Interview Experience - Canada
August 3, 2018
Negative ExperienceNo Offer
Process
My interview was a phone interview. The interviewer asked me to give a name for specific functions, describing what these functions are doing. So, I traced the code and showed him that I understand how the functions are working and gave the correct output for them, but I did not end up with a proper name for the functions. Suddenly, the interviewer ended the interview in a very weird way.
Simply, I wasted my time by having an interview with an unprofessional interviewer whose knowledge is limited to undergraduate programming information. I really do not understand how a big company, like Arista, lets people with very zero knowledge of how to evaluate and interview people be responsible for an important process like hiring.
Questions
Naming some functions
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Interview Statistics
The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Arista Networks Software Engineering Interview role in Canada.
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Arista Networks's interview process for their Software Engineering Interview roles in Canada is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
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Candidates reported having very negative feelings for Arista Networks's Software Engineering Interview interview process in Canada.
Arista Networks Work Experiences
5.0
Continues surging forward
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
October 26, 2025
Pros: Continues to surge forward in the market.
Still retains the focus on product quality.
Cons: Burnaby office is still underserved by transit.
3.0
Decent company - low personal growth, dated tech, ok WLB
Software Engineer • Current Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
April 26, 2023
Pros: Most people in all offices are generally nice.
Quality of work/colleagues depends on what team you're on. Interesting if someone is super into networking, but not great in terms of general software engineering.
WLB is mostly good; managers are quite flexible as long as work gets done.
The company seems to be doing acquisitions all the time; the stock price is doing okay. There's a certain sense of stability.
Cons: - Pay is subpar. A large chunk of the people who tend to stay are pre-IPO or folks who have been with the company for a long time.
- Tech is ugly, dated, and boring; a lot of work is RFC driven.
- Tech-related thoughts/opinions are also dated and driven by the Unix generation of developers who grew up inside a terminal.
- Horrible docs. This makes ramp-up unnecessarily difficult, and the company does not put any professional effort into improving this.
- General company culture/work is more suited for older folks, particularly those who have been in the networking industry for a while.
- Performance evaluation schemes are nice in theory but horrible in practice. Highly skewed towards tenured employees and others' perception of one's "impact."
- Niche domain, and tech is tightly coupled to the domain. Remember that Arista is a networking company before a software company, no matter what.
- People seem to leave constantly.
3.0
Interesting place to work
Software Engineer • Former Employee
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
January 6, 2024
Pros: Smart people. Flexibility. No micromanagement. Perks.
Cons: Complex and brittle infrastructure.
Lax coding standards.
Overly clever engineers.
Entrenched lifers with extensive tribal knowledge.
- 5.0Continues surging forwardSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBurnaby, British Columbia, CanadaOctober 26, 2025Pros: Continues to surge forward in the market. Still retains the focus on product quality.Cons: Burnaby office is still underserved by transit.
- 3.0Decent company - low personal growth, dated tech, ok WLBSoftware Engineer • Current EmployeeBurnaby, British Columbia, CanadaApril 26, 2023Pros: Most people in all offices are generally nice. Quality of work/colleagues depends on what team you're on. Interesting if someone is super into networking, but not great in terms of general software engineering. WLB is mostly good; managers are quite flexible as long as work gets done. The company seems to be doing acquisitions all the time; the stock price is doing okay. There's a certain sense of stability.Cons: - Pay is subpar. A large chunk of the people who tend to stay are pre-IPO or folks who have been with the company for a long time. - Tech is ugly, dated, and boring; a lot of work is RFC driven. - Tech-related thoughts/opinions are also dated and driven by the Unix generation of developers who grew up inside a terminal. - Horrible docs. This makes ramp-up unnecessarily difficult, and the company does not put any professional effort into improving this. - General company culture/work is more suited for older folks, particularly those who have been in the networking industry for a while. - Performance evaluation schemes are nice in theory but horrible in practice. Highly skewed towards tenured employees and others' perception of one's "impact." - Niche domain, and tech is tightly coupled to the domain. Remember that Arista is a networking company before a software company, no matter what. - People seem to leave constantly.
- 3.0Interesting place to workSoftware Engineer • Former EmployeeBurnaby, British Columbia, CanadaJanuary 6, 2024Pros: Smart people. Flexibility. No micromanagement. Perks.Cons: Complex and brittle infrastructure. Lax coding standards. Overly clever engineers. Entrenched lifers with extensive tribal knowledge.
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