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Arista Networks, in Santa Clara.

First round, I had to do 2 coding questions in an hour, 30 mins for each question. I had to go to their campus. They would give me a laptop/environment of my choice and then time starts. Questions were very easy, so the expectation was reasonable.

Second round on On-site was two interviews: Director of engineering asked me why certain piece of C code was behaving in a certain way. I could not answer, but we compiled the code into Assembly and tried to understand the behavior. An hour later, the CTO of the company, Ken Duda, walked in and he asked me an Object Oriented question and some of my past projects. Really drilled me. He gave very simple design of same projects. Very educative and amazed to see a brilliant mind at work. The interview was in no way condescending.

They took a decision right there and it was a no hire. But I loved the experience. It was no BS interview.

[unmole]

I had a similar experience with Arista Networks in Bangalore. Only I managed to get an offer and I've been with the company for a little over 2.5 years. And it's not just the interviews, we're a no-BS company in general.

P.S. We are hiring.

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Debug code behavior using assembly? And deep OOP knowledge? And architecture? They better pay in gold bricks.

[unmole]

> Debug code behavior using assembly?

Do you have a better way of understanding why a peice of C/C++ code is doing something unexpected?

> And deep OOP knowledge? And architecture?

You know, the things you need a good grip on to engineer software.

> They better pay in gold bricks.

No, they just pay me in Rupees and RSUs. Gold bricks sound inconvenient.