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Arista Networks

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One trick pony, High Frequency Trading, very short on features. - Anonymous employee Arista Networks Employee Review

1.0
Jul 18, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Interesting pre-IPO opportunity in growth area (could be good - if your an development engineer).

Cons

Marketing/Sales (including SEs) salaries are pathetic CEO has no respect for anyone other than Engineers Will never make it into general purpose data center- don't have the 30 years of features Losing very large deals weekly Management is hostile to all but engineers Niche player- High Frequency Trading Will never make it to IPO CEO Ullal- continually cuts sales pay plans Losing sales people weekly Cisco owns this market 90% Look at the reviews, only the engineers are rating this company highly Beware of the ploy to give you incentive stock instead of salary

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Extremely talented engineering team - Extremely challenging and rewarding projects - Very good total compensation and stock performance - Very little politics, focus is on engineering and delivering products

Cons

- Limited corporate/team events, team 'swag' etc.

3.0
Mar 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Top-tier technology. brilliant engineers. Incredible customer support TAC. The hyperscalers are consuming Arista tech at an alarming rate, and that serves as a great testimonial to the integrity of the technology, but the GTM strategy for Campus expansion is nonexistent.

Cons

Campus/Enterprise & Commercial sales regions are on an island of their own. Zero business development teams, zero marketing, zero branding, zero latest generation tools to prospect, research, and extract data to target your campaigns. If you don't have existing relationships in your market, then you're on your own to prospect, generate interest, connect with decision makers, identify "at bat opportunities" and close new business. The Hyperscaler use-case examples aren't enough to win real enterprise business from Cisco and HPE.

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