I had a coding interview using the Vim editor. It was a great experience.

The interviewer, Cole Stipe, was very supportive and understanding. I was allowed to make mistakes, and not knowing how to use Vim wasn't a big problem.

I am still waiting to hear from them, but overall, it was a very warm learning experience. It turns out that who is interviewing you matters a lot. I was very lucky.

(If you are interviewing for Arista, don't forget to check the questions people shared on Glassdoor; it helped me immensely.)

Questions on pointers. Had to multiply the string by a number and store the repeated string (result) in another string.

Example: str = "dog" result = "dogdogodog"