Arista Networks interview questions

There was a one hour phone interview which was very rigidly structured and I was asked to write code in a shared terminal. The phone interview can be aced by anyone who has some recent experience in coding typical programming interview questions that are asked by every software company. Followed by the phone interview, there were 2 in-person interview sessions ( 1 hour each ). This meant I didn't have to take a full day off at work, which is great. The in-person interviews were a little more open ended and again, it was very typical of software company interview questions. The interviewers do not ask anything from the resume and dive direct into programming questions.

Phone interview consists of a programming excercise. Need to log on to their server and complete a BT and linked list program. Should be easy.. Onsite is again programming, and it seems the questions are standard. I regret not looking up online now.. First interview was based on stacks, linked list, arrays, dynamic allocations.. all these basic concepts were touched. I had a feeling the interviewer was not open for design changes, he had a set of things in mind and was just stuck to his plan. The second interview was kind of weird. I worked in a networking company before, but never did socket programming there.. It has been ages since I wrote the last socket program. And who remembers TCP/IP hand shake.. I dont think they read my resume. I dont see a reason why these questions were asked if the candidate was interested in platforms.