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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (1,105 total reviews)
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      Jayshree Ullal

      88% approve of CEO

      83% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Senior management

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      Arista Networks has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,105 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arista Networks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      1.0
      Feb 26, 2017

      Horrific experience

      Sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The products are fantastic and I imagine is a good employment experience only if you work at headquarters in Santa Clara, CA.

      Cons

      Worked there pre-IPO through IPO and most of team was hoping someone was going to just purchase Arista. I remember I had to to a barter trade with another rep to secure product because inventory was run reactively and thin to keep costs WAY down. Immature mgmt chain that had never managed others before and were all 'playing coaches'. I bring this up for two reasons: 1. I believe those roles NEVER work; 2. They don't ever take time to learn how to develop to be a better manager and therefore a leader for the team. 'Get to your number by any means necessary' was the constant mantra from my direct and skip level mgmt. this style went all the way up to CEO. Had one dialog with a top Sales executive (recently departed) that he showcased an employee as the pinnacle of hard work and the kind of team player he expected where the employee had a heart attack and day 2 in the hospital was on customer calls from hospital bed. Another top top executive told a story of an employee that had spoken up about low pay and horrible benefits and how they called that person fat and greedy (the statement was that this employee shouldn't need a car, but should ride a bike to work and should skip lunch therefore saving $. I could go on and on but I would recommend you really speak to current employees before you progress in discussions of employment.

      3.0
      May 6, 2016

      Job is good but frustrating and desperate environment lately

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Love the work assignments, challenging and and you get to learn a lot. There is always more to learn. You have to be willing to put some effort. - Very smart people to work with who are at the same time very helpful - Other learning opportunities available like interviewing, mentoring, organizing events, etc. There is a plethora of activities you can participate in other than your daily work. - This is a great place to develop your technical and professional skills and prepare yourself for the outside world. Arista has a reputation in the market and everyone knows that Arista's employees are better than average people. You will never have a difficulty of finding a job outside because you have Arista's work experience. - From last 1 year Arista is spending a good amount of money on team lunches, picnics and weekly beer bash. - Peer performance review - Areview - This has both pros and cons but still better than traditional way of performance review. The good part about this is you get reviewed by a lot of people and you get good feedback and you get to know how people perceive you. Your performance review does not lie in the hands of one man - your manager.

      Cons

      - Low salary, even if you joined close to IPO. The stocks are not worth much. - Counter offers - A person with lesser experience interviewed somewhere else and showed the offer to Arista, the managers gave him a counter offer which is 25% more than his salary (his current salary is also higher than mine because I got options). This seems like we do not deserve a 20-25% hike even if we are more experienced and have been longer with Arista - the hike I get is close to 5% even though I am called a star performer. The reason that I am given is, "You have stocks" and the risk I took by joining before IPO at a lower salary counts as nothing. This is very frustrating. My friends with the same level of experience are joining elsewhere and are easily getting 30% more than my salary and close to 125k worth of RSUs. - Areview - This worked really well when the company was small, now half the people don't understand it. It is called a review by peers but it has actually become a review by managers. The managers literally come back and poke people questioning their rankings and in 50% of the cases end up affecting the person and get the ranking changed according to who they think is better. - People start sending emails for irrelevant things to increase their visibility when Areview is in progress which shows the desperation of the employees. I feel pity for those people because they are smart and contributing people but they are scared and nervous because someone has to be at the bottom of the list (even though everyone is above average) and that is what they dread.

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      > Areview - it is called a review by peers but it has actually become > a review by managers. The Arista management team has a responsibility to conduct comprehensive employee performance reviews, just like at any other company. This has always been the case --- you are right that at the end of the day, our process is "review by managers" . However, our process is also based upon the rank-list, which is generated from the rankings submitted by the peers. Rank-list generation is based on a tournament rating algorithm and does not involve any management judgement at all. The rank-list serves as the foundation for level assignment, tweaked as needed by the management team. Areview has worked like this from the very beginning. Thanks to Areview, we are able to gather far more information about an employee and take that into consideration in the review process. It is one of our core strengths. > This worked really well when the company was small, now > half the people don't understand it. ... The managers > literally come back and poke people questioning their rankings... Put your two statements together, and I hope you'll see that the purpose of having managers question rankings is to help out when employees don't understand Areview. We ask our managers to look for rank lists that don't make sense to them, and to please make sure the employee understands what we are asking them to do. If so, then the rank list stands. The employee should only change their submission if the employee decides that their original submission was based on misunderstanding. For example, we have had people submit rank lists upside down. Surely it's worth helping people to recognize and correct this sort of error? > in 50% of the cases end up affecting the person and get the ranking > changed according to who they think is better. I believe when managers ask questions about rank lists, they are either trying to help spot and correct mistakes and misunderstandings, or are trying to gather actionable feedback on behalf of the person being reviewed. I don't think our managers are trying to unduly influence rank lists, but you're right that if managers are doing this, it's wrong. If you are aware of specific cases, I'd appreciate it if you brought them to my attention. Thanks, -Ken Kenneth Duda CTO & SVP Software Arista Networks, Inc.
      3.0
      Aug 10, 2018

      Mixed Bag

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Arista still has some aspects of a startup in its corporate culture and vibe, although it's making an awkward transition to a full-grown company and experiencing some growing pains. Beer bashes on Fridays, a sense of playfulness among the engineers, the feeling that we can all still contribute and make a difference. And it's fun to be working for the underdog when the underdog is winning.

      Cons

      Executives have the attitude that simply working for Arista is an honor, and that this is the primary reason people come to the company. As a result, they think it's acceptable to short-change employees on benefits and compensation, since those aren't what we're here for. There's also a tension in some departments between systems that were set in place in cowboy days and a growing number of employees -- cowboy systems don't tend to scale well, and as a result some things fall through the cracks.

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