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SDE-2 at Arista Networks

Difficulty
Process took
1-2 Weeks
Rounds
2
Format
Remote
Applied via
Job Portal

How it went

Know your projects inside out, what broke, what you fixed, what you’d do differently, i think i was not able to convey this thing in right manner due to this i got rejected.

What they would tell you

Know your projects inside out, what broke, what you fixed, what you’d do differently, i think i was not able to convey this thing in right manner due to this i got rejected.

How to prepare

DSA and LLD

Their background

I’m a backend engineer with 4.5 years of experience, working mostly in Golang these days.

Round by round

  1. 1

    DSA60 min

    DSA 1: Given a sorted array of integers, some of which are missing, reconstruct the missing numbers and return the smallest missing positive integer not present in the array. DSA 2: Reconstruct Itinerary (little bit different)

  2. 2

    Technical Interview60 min

    Start with introduction of both parties, then they asked about my recent project after that a lld question LLD: Design a Multiplayer Game Lobby System Requirements:

    • Players can create, join, and leave lobbies.
    • A lobby can hold up to N players.
    • Notify all players when the game starts.
    • Handle concurrency (lots of players, lots of updates). I sketched classes for Lobby, Player, and Match, a central LobbyManager with a mutex, and channels for async notifications.

What came up

MediumRemote4 5 years

A candidate-reported account, lightly edited. Interview processes change by team and date.

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